Installation and deployment
Prepare an environment and deploy a release with a recovery plan.
Choose a task below. Check its access requirement before starting, and verify the result with the intended account or service.
In this section
- 1Set up a local development environmentChoose one installation route, start Zotonic, create a site, and make your first visible change.
- 2Prepare an acceptance or production environmentSeparate environments and record how the site is operated.
- 3Deploy and verify a releaseApply a tested revision and check the site from a visitor’s perspective.
- 4Configure service startup and restart behaviourRun Zotonic under the installation’s service manager.
- 5Find the status site and your site's adminThe status site manages the running Zotonic installation. A site's /admin manages that site's content and enabled modules. They have different scopes and can use different credentials.
- 6Run Zotonic as a serviceStart a foreground Zotonic process under the host service manager.
- 7Tune server limits from measured loadCheck actual limits and workload before changing operating-system settings.
- 8Serve HTTPS on a privileged portTerminate public traffic at a reverse proxy while Zotonic stays unprivileged.
- 9Configure hostnames and HTTPSAlign DNS, site selection, and certificate termination.
- 10Cache selected public assets with VarnishStart with a narrow VCL 4 policy and preserve authenticated responses.
- 11Put Zotonic behind nginxForward HTTP and WebSocket traffic with a narrow trust boundary.
- 12Keep development and production settings distinctKeep development and production settings distinct.
Also in: Site administration