MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3 - DEPLOYING AND PUBLISHING... User manual

CONTRIBUTE

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Deploying Contribute and

Contribute Publishing Server

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Acknowledgments

Project Management: Jennifer Rowe

Writing: Chris Bedford and Jennifer Rowe

Managing Editor: Rosana Francescato

Editing: Evelyn Eldridge and Lisa Stanziano

Production Management: Adam Barnett

Media Design and Production: Adam Barnett, Aaron Begley, and John Francis

Special thanks to Joel Huff, Vickie Chapman, Sarabjit Singh, and the Contribute engineering and QA teams.

First Edition: March 2006

Adobe Systems Incorporated

601 Townsend St.

San Francisco, CA 94103

Contents

Chapter 1: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Chapter 2: Preparing Your Network and Installing Contribute . . 17

Chapter 3: Configuring Contribute and Contribute Publishing

Server to work with your website. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

4Contents

CHAPTER 1

Overview

Macromedia Contribute is a website editor that lets people connect to departmental and other

websites so that they can update web page content. Administrative assistants, product managers,

human resource managers, and other people in an organization can use Contribute to update

their team website without having to contact a web team or other departmental resources.

For larger organizations, you can optionally use Macromedia Contribute Publishing Server (CPS)

with Contribute. CPS is a user management and publishing solution that lets Contribute

administrators manage large groups of Contribute users and monitor what those users do on the

website.

This chapter, intended for website administrators and IT professionals, gives you valuable

information you need before you deploy Contribute, and optionally CPS, within an organization.

It explains the Contribute user management models for using Contribute alone or with CPS,

shows scenarios for setting up Contribute in a variety of IT environments, and lists the people

and the various tasks involved in successfully deploying Contribute.

This chapter contains the following sections:

•“Understanding Contribute user management models” on page 5

•“Common website configurations” on page 9

•“Deployment roles and responsibilities” on page 17

•“Deployment tasks checklist” on page 18

Understanding Contribute user management models

User management lets you add and remove user access to websites and create user roles that

restrict editing privileges within a site. User management also provides a mechanism that lets users

easily connect to a website.

Contribute has two user management models: manual site connections using Contribute only

and managed site connections using Contribute plus the CPS User Directory service.

Manual connections let you communicate connection information to users, who then create

their own connections, either by entering connection information in the Connection Wizard or

by importing a connection key file that you give them.

6Overview

This user model works best for smaller workgroups and organizations. It allows you to quickly set

up Contribute, create a connection to your website, define the necessary user roles, generate

connection information for the website connection/user role, and send it to users in the form of a

connection key file.

Managed connections lets you use CPS to integrate Contribute with your organization’s LDAP

or Active Directory services, giving you the ability to add and remove user access to a website and

modify user roles without having to resend connection key files to users. You can also create a file-

based database, using an XML file to manually enter user names and passwords.

CPS is intended for larger organizations that have several Contribute users to manage. CPS lets

you add and remove users from websites and roles without having to resend connection

information. When you create a connection to a website that uses CPS, you simply add users to a

list that grants access to a given website and user role. When users access the website, CPS

prompts them for a user name and password. After entering their user name and password, they

are granted access to the website and the role you’ve assigned to them.

To use CPS, you must have a J2EE application server such as Macromedia JRun installed. To

learn about other CPS functionality, see “Using Contribute Publishing Server with Contribute”

on page 6. For more information about getting CPS for your organization, see the CPS website at

www.macromedia.com/go/cps.

Using Contribute Publishing Server with Contribute

Using Contribute Publishing Server (CPS) with Contribute creates a powerful solution for

managing and maintaining your website.

CPS is a J2EE-based server application that lets you centrally manage large groups of Contribute

users. CPS includes of the following services:

User Directory service is a user management solution that lets you integrate Contribute with

your organization’s user directory to easily manage and authenticate users.

E-mail Notification service lets you automatically notify users about changes to web pages

within the draft review process.

Log service lets you monitor website activity so that you can easily troubleshoot problems.

CPS also has two other services that you can extend to meet your needs or use as they are:

Simple File Deployment service enables you to easily move files from a staging or testing

server to a live server

RSS Activity Feed service produces a syndication feed that lists changes that occur in any

folder on your website.

The biggest advantage to using CPS is the ability to integrate your organization’s user directory

services (such as LDAP or Active Directory) with Contribute. This gives you individual control

over which user is granted access to a particular website and the role to which they are assigned.

Understanding Contribute user management models 7

Consider a large organization with several decentralized websites. In addition to a public facing

site that provides information about the organization, there are several internal sites in use by

individual departments and workgroups. The organization uses LDAP as both a directory service

that lets users look up other employees as well as an authentication service through which

administrators set permissions limiting users’ access to file-sharing servers and other network

resources.

Unlike sites that don’t use CPS to manage users, when a user logs in to a CPS website, the User

Directory service retrieves the connection information associated with that user, and provides

access to the sites the administrator has assigned. By maintaining site connection information

within the User Directory, administrators can add or remove access to websites without having to

resend connection information.

This example provides a partial listing of employees from an organization’s user directory. The

employees, their workgroup affiliations, and the sites they can access are listed in the following

table:

Although this user list is oversimplified, it demonstrates one possible scenario for the way that

users within an organization might be assigned access to websites. This scenario divides users

according to their role within the organization, and assumes that they have full editing and

publishing privileges within their respective sites. Certain users have access to all the sites. For

example, the product managers, John Lydon and Malcolm McClaren, work with all the teams in

developing and launching products, and need to contribute to all the sites.

User Workgroup Websites

John Lydon Product Management Sales, Production, Marketing

Malcolm McClaren Product Management Sales, Production, Marketing

Martin Atkins Marketing Marketing

Keith Levine Sales Sales

John Savage Production Production

Laura Logic Web Design Sales, Production, Marketing

Jah Wobble Contribute Administrator Sales, Production, Marketing

8Overview

Likewise, web designer Laura Logic and Contribute administrator Jah Wobble have access to all

sites. As the web designer, Laura provides templates that are easy to add content to and that fit the

needs of users collaborating internally. The templates she maintains include those for taking

meeting minutes, for scheduling, and for providing product specifications, marketing launch

plans, and sales projections, to name a few. Laura also collaborates with Jah Wobble, the

Contribute administrator, to help determine the editing and publishing privileges for individual

users and roles.

User list input from directory

service (LDAP, Active Directory)

Sales Marketing Manufacturing

User Directory manages users

and their connections

PUBLISHING SERVICE

SERVER

Users... John Lydon, Martin

Atkins, Keith Levine, Laura...

DIRECTORY SERVICE

Common website configurations 9

CPS integrates with the organization’s LDAP service, which authenticates user access to various

network resources. In this case, the LDAP authentication is the first step in granting access to

websites hosted on various servers within the organization. The Contribute roles further define

user privileges within a website, determining the degree to which users can modify pages within

the site.

Common website configurations

Before you deploy Contribute, you should consider various scenarios for setting up Contribute

for large or multi-team organizations.

This section describes three primary configurations for you to consider as you set up a Contribute

site.

Single website on one webserver Typically, this is a website where users have read access to

the root of the site and read/write access to specific folders in the site as controlled by the file

server or network permissions. There is a single root folder and all users access the site using

the same Contribute connection. If this applies to your site, see “Deploying Contribute for a

single website with one webserver” on page 10.

Multiple websites on one webserver In this structure there is a single root folder. The root

folder contains folders for each section or organizational function within the website.

Contribute roles are used to control user access to particular folders on the site and to assign a

subset of the common templates used on the site. Although not required, file server

permissions are usually used in addition to Contribute roles to restrict user access to sections of

a site. If this applies to your site, see “Deploying Contribute for multiple websites on one

webserver” on page 12.

Website on a staging server and a live server Many websites use a staging web server with

their production web server. Staging servers let you create and test web content without

making it live on your public facing website. Only when content has been approved are web

pages and their associated files copied from the staging to the production web server. When

used with Contribute, a staging server adds an extra measure of security because you can

configure your staging server so that Contribute specific files (such as administrative folders,

rollback files, and interim drafts) are not copied to the publicly accessible website outside your

network firewall. For more information, see “Deploying Contribute to a staging server and a

live server” on page 14.

Depending on how your website is structured, you need to use separate strategies to successfully

set up Contribute for multiple users and groups. Specifically, you’ll need to think about where to

store the Contribute shared settings file, how to prevent overlapping connection paths, and how

you’ll send connections to users.

Deploying Contribute for a single website with one webserver

In this example, Contribute is deployed to a simple intranet consisting of a single web server

hosting a departmental website. The website has a single, common root folder with subfolders for

individual departments. The site uses Dreamweaver templates and CSS styles to enforce the look

and feel of the website and SSIs to maintain page elements such as navigation menus, headers,

and footers.

10 Overview

The key to this arrangement is that all users have the same Contribute site connection. In other

words, there is a single connection point for all users that controls the behavior of Contribute

when editing the website. If you want to restrict users to editing content in their workgroup’s

folder, you would need to create a role that limits access to a specific folder.

An advantage to this type of Contribute deployment is that users in all departments can

collaborate by sending pages for review to one another. If separate connections had been created

for each department (as in the example “Deploying Contribute for multiple websites on one

webserver” on page 12), then only the users with access to that folder could receive and edit drafts

sent to them for review.

It is important that the Templates folder, which is located at the same level as the Contribute

shared settings folder (_mm), is accessible by all users, and the site’s CSS (CSS folder), and server

side includes (SSI folder) are protected by role settings that restrict access to those folders. Web

pages and associated files stored in these folders cannot be edited using Contribute, preventing

them from being inadvertently modified or damaged. If you want to restrict users to editing

content in their workgroup’s folder, you need to create a role that limits access to a specific folder.

Team Sites _mm(Shared settings) TemplatesSSICSS

WEB SERVER HOSTING

INTERNAL SITES

Sales Manufacturing Marketing

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