[HOWTO] Using Diazo as a standalone server.

Just a little quick note.

Diazo, the super cool theming system used by Plone, have 2 WSGI middlewares which will turn it into some sort of theming proxy for any existing sites. However, that feature and the steps to use it is not quite documented anywhere.

Then I saw dv.xdvserver in PyPi. Using the sample paster config file from there, here is a little guide on how to use it.

Deploying

I have uploaded my buildout to github kagesenshi/diazoserver. To deploy, just follow these steps:

got clone git://github.com/kagesenshi/diazoserver.git
cd diazoserver
python2.6 bootstrap.py
./bin/buildout -vv 

The steps above will pull and install diazo and its dependencies into the buildout.

Configuring

Copy diazo.ini-sample as diazo.ini. Change the address http://www.example.com/ to address of your app. Take note that the Paster proxy might not work if the backend site is compressed.

Edit the static/rules.xml file and static/index.html file as you wish. For full documentation on how to utilize them, visit the diazo documentation

Starting up the server

Just run this command to start the server:

./bin/paster server diazo.ini

Thats it, Happy hacking~!

- Izhar Firdaus -