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Deploying Contribute to Departments and Enterprises
In addition to the basic tasks described in the preceding table, you might want to further enhance
your website by designing it to be more easily maintainable or by adding additional functionality
by using CPS.
Deployment issues
The following sections describe issues you should be aware of when deploying Contribute in your
organization. As with all client software that provides access to centralized servers on a network,
Contribute requires that certain network and server file permissions be appropriately configured
for users. Before installing Contribute and deploying it to users, ensure that you have considered
the following issues and have appropriately configured your website environment for use with
Contribute.
This section contains the following topics:
“Understanding network and server permissions” on page 9
“Contribute administrative connections” on page 9
“About Contribute administrative settings” on page 10
“Contribute site structure” on page 11
“Network paths and web addresses (URLs)” on page 11
“Contribute network connection types” on page 12
Information about your website
Before you install Contribute, you must gather information about your organization’s website
infrastructure. You need to find the answers to the following questions:
•
Where is the server on the network?
•
Who can access the server?
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Do new users and permissions need to be created on the server?
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What type of network connection will you use to connect to the website?
•
If you are using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or Secure FTP (SFTP) to connect to the website,
what FTP software is being used?
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What web server software is in use, and where is the website’s root folder?
•
What is the URL of the website?
Create Contribute roles
Create Contribute roles based on the privileges and restrictions you want
to place on a user’s ability to access and edit pages within the site.
For more information, see
“Contribute user roles” on page 17
.
Deploy Contribute to
your user base
Deploy Contribute to your users, and send them connection key files so
they can access the website.
To learn more about distributing website connections, see
“Website
connection distribution” on page 21
.
Task
Description
