First thing to do is to log in to the terminal and navigate to

/Applications/Plone2/Tools

There, issue the newsite command (./newsite {sitename})

The newsite command will work away and return to you some information with the password to your new site. The site will be in this directory:

/Applications/Plone2/Sites/{sitename}

In the etc subdirectory of that site will be a configuration file plone.conf - edit that file and figure out which port number to give to your site. The FTP and DAV ports aren't important (unless you are keen to use that mode of access, let's assume you're not), but the PLONE_WEBSERVER_PORT and the ZOPE_MANAGEZODB_PORT ports are important. You'll want to make note of those. "newsite" tries to make sure these ports aren't overlapping on all your sites, but it doesn't hurt to make sure other sites within your universe of sites don't have those numbers.

Before you leave this area copy the Zwiki "product" from another site (e.g., /Applications/Plone2/Sites/Default/Products/Zwiki) and put it in your site's products directory.

Now, before you start tinkering with your site you probably want to make it accessible to the world via port 80 and not the strange port that Plone gives you. This involves setting the apache redirect. You will find apache's configuration file in /etc/httpd/sites. It is called 0001_any80.conf. Edit this file, looking at the ones above the bottom of the file, basically copying the last rewrite rule and adding your own. Here's the one for "engage":

RewriteRule ^/engage(.*) http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca:8286/VirtualHostBase/http/arago.cprost.sfu.ca:80/VirtualHostRoot/engage$1 [L,P]

Once you have done that you need to restart apache, which you can do with "apachectl restart"

Now you can go back to your browser and visit your site, using the URL: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/{newsite}

You have a few things to fix before you're ready to start, though.

Change the logo:

Go into the "Site Setup" (top right of the screen), when you are logged in as the admin person - you did remember that password didn't you? You might want to reset it now.

Visit the "portal_skins" link and find the logo item and upload your new logo in there. It should be under 600px wide and 57 px high. It might take a while for the site to reflect your changes. Don't worry about this.

You might also take this time to change the "recent changes" portlets to show more than five items.

Another thing to do is to remove some of the default portlets - these are "properties" in the site root.

I am sure there are a few more things, you can tinker with.

Now you need to enable the Zwiki product through the Site Setup area, "install products" menu item. Just click on the box for Zwiki, so that it is enabled and so that when you create a wiki page inside the plone site it actually looks like plone and not "bare" wiki.

Now you can create a folder in your site (e.e.,g "wiki") and inside that folder add a wiki page - call the first one "FrontPage" - the others you can call what you like.

Finally, visit another working site (e.g., engage) and check the security settings so that you have things set the way you want. You may want full access to visitors or you may not.

And now it should work!