User manual MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3 DEPLOYING AND PUBLISHING SERVER

[. . . ] CONTRIBUTE 3 Deploying Contribute and Contribute Publishing Server Trademarks 1 Step RoboPDF, ActiveEdit, ActiveTest, Authorware, Blue Sky Software, Blue Sky, Breeze, Breezo, Captivate, Central, ColdFusion, Contribute, Database Explorer, Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, FlashCast, FlashHelp, Flash Lite, FlashPaper, Flash Video Encoder, Flex, Flex Builder, Fontographer, FreeHand, Generator, HomeSite, JRun, MacRecorder, Macromedia, MXML, RoboEngine, RoboHelp, RoboInfo, RoboPDF, Roundtrip, Roundtrip HTML, Shockwave, SoundEdit, Studio MX, UltraDev, and WebHelp are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated and may be registered in the United States or in other jurisdictions including internationally. Other product names, logos, designs, titles, words, or phrases mentioned within this publication may be trademarks, service marks, or trade names of Adobe Systems Incorporated or other entities and may be registered in certain jurisdictions including internationally. Third-Party Information This guide contains links to third-party websites that are not under the control of Adobe Systems Incorporated, and Adobe Systems Incorporated is not responsible for the content on any linked site. If you access a third-party website mentioned in this guide, then you do so at your own risk. [. . . ] The options in this dialog box let you create and manage your Contribute connections. Installing Contribute and creating an administrative connection 35 3. Click Create. The Connection Wizard (Windows) or Connection Assistant (Macintosh) appears. This wizard or assistant guides you through setting up a new website connection. As you complete each screen in the wizard or assistant, click Next (Windows) or Continue (Macintosh) to go to the next screen. Tip: Click Back or Go Back to return to a previous screen, if necessary. If you need more information about how to complete a screen, click the Help button. 4. On the Summary screen, review the connection settings to verify that they're correct and click Done (Windows) or Finish (Macintosh) to complete the connection. After Contribute has successfully created a connection to the website, the Connection Wizard or Assistant closes, and the main page of the website appears in the Contribute browser. Related topics · "Configuring Contribute" on page 47 Installing Contribute Publishing Server (Optional) The Contribute Publishing Server (CPS) installers give you two options for installing CPS, depending on your server environment: · Simple Installation is for systems that do not already have a Java application server installed. This installation includes a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and JRun 4 server for use with CPS. For more information, see "Installing Contribute Publishing Server using the Simple Installation" on page 38. · WAR File Installation is for systems that have a Java application server already installed. For more information, see "Installing Contribute Publishing Server using the WAR File Installation" on page 40. If there is not an installer for your platform, you can download a WAR file and associated data files, and then follow the WAR File Installation process to install CPS. Note: If there is not an installer for your platform, and you need to perform the WAR File Installation but do not have a Java application server, you can download a trial version of the JRun 4 server with limited licensing capabilities. For more information, see the Macromedia website at www. macromedia. com. Software requirements Contribute Publishing Server (CPS) is a J2EE web application that you can install as a Web Application Archive (WAR) file onto any supported Java Application Server. You have the option of installing CPS as an integrated Java application server that includes Macromedia JRun 4. 0 or as a WAR file that you deploy onto an existing Java application server. 36 Preparing Your Network and Installing Contribute Install CPS on its own server within a firewall-protected network. When using the User Directory service, CPS stores information to authenticate user access to web servers within your IT environment. For this reason, you should follow security procedures appropriate to any other application server you might install within your infrastructure. For a list of the minimum hardware and software configurations required to successfully operate CPS, see www. macromedia. com/go/sysreq_cps. Installing Contribute Publishing Server using the Simple Installation The Simple Installation for CPS enables you to install a preconfigured Java application server that includes CPS. This installation is recommended if you don't have an existing Java application server. To install CPS by using the Simple Installation (Windows): 1. Read and accept the license agreement to continue with the installation. In the Installation Method screen, select the Simple Installation option. Accept the default installation location or click Choose to select another location. The default location is: C:/Program Files/Macromedia/Contribute Publishing Server 6. When prompted, enter an administrative password to restrict access to the CPS Console. Tip: This is not the same password used to protect the Contribute administrator role, so you might want to make a note of it. 7. Review the Summary screen, and then click Install when you are ready to begin the installation. The installer writes folders and files to the installation folder. CPS installs as a Windows Service and automatically starts. Note: The Contribute Publishing Server/jrun4 directory contains the JRun 4 application server and a deployed version of CPS. 8. [. . . ] If you are using CPS to manage users, you must add users to your website before they can connect and begin using Contribute to edit the website (see "Adding users to your website (CPS only)" on page 63). After you have added users to the website, you can send them a connection key to connect. Tip: You can also have users type connect:server domain name (where server domain name is the name of the server where CPS is installed) in the Contribute browser address bar to connect to the website. The procedure for sending a connection key varies depending on whether you are using CPS to manage your website or not. If you're not using CPS, see "Sending connection keys for websites" on page 66. If you are using CPS to manage users, see "Sending connections for CPS managed sites" on page 68. [. . . ]