How to run multiple school instance in a single server

This is possible, and not very difficult, but not really documented... I'll see if I can get someone who knows how to do it to write down the steps...

I thank you sincerely for best of your support and help here Tom. Kindly keep me posted of the solution.

Sincerely,
Rizwan Ashraf

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This is possible, and not very difficult, but not really documented...
I'll see if I can get someone who knows how to do it to write down the
steps...

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It is not very easy to make multiple instances in Natty, it was easier
before with schooltool-common package, but I have not found a good
solution yet.

SchoolTool instances are defined in /etc/schooltool. Copy the standard one::

 $ sudo cp -r /etc/schooltool/standard /etc/schooltool/another

Edit the configuration file and replace or add prefixes to have
different file names::

 $ sudo vim /etc/schooltool/another/schooltool.conf
 ...
 site-definition /etc/schooltool/another/site.zcml
 ...
 <filestorage>
   path /var/lib/schooltool/another-Data.fs
 </filestorage>
 ...
 error-log-file /var/log/schooltool/another-error.log
 web-access-log-file /var/log/schooltool/another-web-access.log

You do not need to create any of those files.

Change the port to a different one than standard::

 $ sudo vim /etc/schooltool/another/paste.ini
 ...
 port = 7082

Copy and edit the init script::

 $ sudo cp /etc/init.d/schooltool /etc/init.d/schooltool-another
 $ sudo vim /etc/init.d/schooltool-another
 ...
 SERVER_DESC="Another SchoolTool"
 SERVER=another
 INSTANCE=another
 ...
 LOGFILE=/var/log/schooltool/another-paste.log
 ...

Now you can start the new server::

 $ sudo /etc/init.d/schooltool-another start

Look if there are any startup errors::

 $ tail -f /var/log/schooltool/another-paste.log
 Reading configuration from /etc/schooltool/schooltool2/schooltool.conf
 INFO:zope.app.generations:main db: evolving in mode EVOLVEMINIMUM

There is no success message. But the server should have started. Go to
http://localhost:7082 to see it.

To make this server stop/start on reboot, you have to install the
init.d script to runlevels::

 $ sudo update-rc.d schooltool-another defaults
  Adding system startup for /etc/init.d/schooltool-another ...

Now you have two instances of SchoolTool.

If you are running something other than Natty, then file names are
different, but the steps are the same.