Silva Documentation Archive

Tutorials

Silva 0.9: A Silva Tutorial with extensive screen shots – provided by Jan Smith – guides a first-time user/Author through the steps to create and edit a publication, explaining fundamental concepts in process. Available as a Word file (845k).

Silva 0.9: There is also a German version of the tutorial (PDF, 1.4 Mb), translated by Doris Tomaschewski.

Installation

Mac OS X

• Silva 0.9: Rolf Moser created a How-To for installing Silva 0.9 on Mac OSX. It describes the installation of Python/ZOPE/Silva (OSX Server and OSX), and is available in two formats on his zope.org page (includes hyperlinks to all dependencies).

Linux

• Reinhard Hess contributed a detailed How-To Install Python and Zope with INSTANCE_HOME on SuSE 8.0 Linux (and add a Silva instance).

Windows

• Samuel Schluep, Doris Tomaschewski and Wolfgang Korosec composed a nicely illustrated "Installing Silva 0.9.3 on Windows 2000 and XP" which includes Python, PyXML, and Zope install instructions. It's available in two formats, as PDF and as a Word file.

ZEO

ZEO installation

• Documentation about setting up a ZEO v1.x cluster is here: Setting up a ZEO Cluster with session tracking.
• Setting up a ZEO 2 cluster is described in Setting up a ZEO Cluster for ZEO 2, Zope 2.6.1 and DBTab.

Apache

• A description of how to set up Apache with a ZEO cluster can be found in Setting up Apache with HTTP/HTTPS for a ZEO Cluster

Squid

• A small Squid caching server and ZEO tutorial can be found on Setting up Squid Caching in a ZEO Cluster

Miscellaneous

Usage details of Silva's File object and how to set it up is described in Silva File Object

A description of how Silva uses FileSystemSite can be found in Silva and the Filesystem

Silva News objects contains a brief overview of all objects provided by the SilvaNews package