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ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 21 User Guide • Send a connection key that allows only users connecting to the site to use WebDAV. • Restrict local area network, FTP, and SFTP access to the server hosting the WebDAV-enabled site. For more information on WebDAV, see the WebDav Resources website at www.webdav.org. Network paths and web addresses (URLs) When creating a connection to the website, Contribute prompts you to provide the web address (URL) of the website, and the network connection information of the server and folder storing the website. Both the web address and network path must point to the same folder in the website. For example, suppose your website is located at the directory path: \\MyServer\wwwroot\sites\MySite And the corresponding web address for this site is: www.MyServer.com/sites/MySite When creating the connection, you must enter these values correctly, so they point to the same folder. To ensure that the website and network folder (or in the case of FTP and SFTP, the FTP folder) are the same, Contribute uploads a temporary file using the path information you provide. Contribute then attempts to read the temporary file through HTTP, using the web address you provide. If Contribute succeeds in locating the temporary file, the paths match, and Contribute creates the connection. If the paths don't match, Contribute prompts you again for the correct path. Note: If your users will use FTP to connect to a website folder in the FTP Host folder, you must provide an absolute path to the folder. Installing Contribute and creating an administrative connection After you plan your website infrastructure and configure the network and server permissions for appropriate read, write, and modify permissions, you must install a copy of Contribute and create a Contribute administrator connection to the website. Note: You can create as many administrative connections as necessary, depending on how many sites and subsites you need to establish. Go ahead and install Contribute, and then gather the information you need for connecting (see "Preparing to connect to a website" on page 21) and establish your administrative connection (see "Creating a Contribute website connection" on page 22). Preparing to connect to a website Before you begin, gather the following information: 1 Your user name and e-mail address The user name and e-mail address identify users and the web pages they are working on. Contribute prevents multiple users from simultaneously editing the same web page. (Contribute uses a system much like the Dreamweaver check in/check out system to avoid editing conflicts.)

Section	Page
Contents	3
Chapter 1: Overview	4
Understanding Contribute user management models	4
Using Contribute Publishing Server with Contribute	5
Common website configurations	7
Deploying Contribute for a single website with one web server	7
Deploying Contribute for multiple websites on one web server	8
Deploying Contribute to a staging server and a live server	9
Deployment roles and responsibilities	11
Deployment tasks checklist	12
Chapter 2: Setting up your Contribute Server Environment	14
Preparing your web server before you deploy	14
Understanding network and server permissions	14
Understanding server access for connecting to CPS-managed websites	15
Restricting access to administrative folders and special file types	15
Apache web servers	15
Microsoft IIS web servers	16
Other web servers	16
Special files created by the draft review process	16
Planning your Contribute site structure and connection path	18
Understanding Contribute connection paths	18
Understanding subsites and overlapping website connections	19
Understanding Contribute network connection types	21
Network paths and web addresses (URLs)	24
Installing Contribute and creating an administrative connection	24
Preparing to connect to a website	24
Creating a Contribute website connection	25
Installing Contribute Publishing Server (Optional)	26
Software requirements	26
Installing Contribute Publishing Server using the Simple Installation	26
Installing Contribute Publishing Server by using the WAR File Installation	28
Chapter 3: Configuring Contribute	34
Configuring Contribute	34
About Contribute administrative settings	34
Configuring Contribute administrative settings	35
About Contribute user roles and settings	36
Creating Contribute roles	38
Configuring Contribute Publishing Server (CPS only)	40
Understanding Contribute user authentication models	40
About Contribute and LDAP or Active Directory	41
Authentication workflow	42
Configuring CPS User Directory and other services	43
Enabling Contribute websites to work with CPS (CPS only)	45
Adding users to your website (CPS only)	47
Deploying Contribute and website connections	49
Sending connection keys for websites	50
Sending connections for CPS managed sites	52
Deploying Contribute across an organization	52
Deploying Contribute CS3 by using Microsoft Systems Management Server	52
Uninstalling Contribute CS3	56
Index	57
A	57
about CPS 2	57
Add Users dialog box 45	57
Administer Website dialog box 43, 44	57
administration	57
settings, about 31	57
sitewide settings 32	57
administrator, responsibilities 8	57
C	57
child website 16	57
compressed WAR archive 27	57
connecting to a website that CPS manages 47, 49	57
connection key, sending 47	57
Connection Wizard 21	57
connections	57
about 18	57
child websites 16	57
creating a website 21	57
network path 22	57
overlapping 16	57
SFTP 19	57
URL 22	57
WebDAV 20	57
Contribute 45	57
Administer Website dialog box 43, 44	57
Enable Publishing Server dialog box 43	57
Log service 2	57
Publishing Server, enabling 42	57
User Directory, enabling 43	57
Contribute Publishing Server	57
about 2	57
case study 2	57
Simple Installation 23	57
using secure LDAP with User Directory 42	57
WAR File Installation 23, 25	57
CPS	57
about 2	57
Simple Installation 23	57
using secure LDAP with User Directory 42	57
WAR File Installation 23, 25	57
D	57
deploying	57
responsibilities 8	57
tasks 9	57
E	57
E-mail Notification, about 2	57
Enable Publishing Server dialog box 43	57
expanded WAR archive 27	57
F	57
FTP, connection information 22	57
I	57
installing	57
Contribute Publishing Server, Simple Installation 23	57
Contribute Publishing Server, WAR File Installation 23, 25	57
L	57
LDAP, using secure LDAP with User Directory 42	57
Log service, about 2	57
N	57
network	57
about 11	57
connection types, about 18	57
path and web addresses 21	57
O	57
overlapping, website connections 16	57
P	57
parent website 16	57
permissions, about 11	57
Publishing Server	57
enabling with Contribute 42	57
Publishing Server Console 40	57
Simple Installation 23	57
system requirements 23	57
using secure LDAP with User Directory 42	57
WAR File Installation 23, 25	57
web address 43	57
R	57
roles	57
about 33	57
Administrator 33	57
default 33	57
example of 34	57
Publisher 33	57
Writer 33	57
S	57
secure LDAP, using with User Directory 42	57
server permissions 11	57
services	57
E-mail Notification 2	57
Log 2	57
User Directory 2	57
SFTP connection information 19, 22	57
Simple Installation, Contribute Publishing Server 23	57
Sitewide Settings dialog box 32	57
staging servers, case study 6	57
system requirements 23	57
U	57
User Directory	57
about 2	57
enable 43	57
User Directory service, using secure LDAP (LDAPS) 42	57
user management	57
about 1	57
Contribute Publishing Server 1	57
manual connections 1	57
users, connecting to a website that CPS manages 47, 49	57
W	57
WAR	57
compressed archive 27	57
expanded archive 27	57
WAR File Installation, Contribute Publishing Server 23, 25	57
Web Application Archive, see WAR.	57
WebDAV connection information 20	58
website connections	58
child websites 16	58
creating 21, 22	58
overlapping 16	58
website, address (URL) 22	58

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ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3

User Guide

•

Send a connection key that allows only users connecting to the site to use WebDAV.

•

Restrict local area network, FTP, and SFTP access to the server hosting the WebDAV-enabled site.

For more information on WebDAV, see the WebDav Resources website at

www.webdav.org

Network paths and web addresses (URLs)

When creating a connection to the website, Contribute prompts you to provide the web address (URL) of the website,

and the network connection information of the server and folder storing the website. Both the web address and

network path must point to the same folder in the website.

For example, suppose your website is located at the directory path:

\\MyServer\wwwroot\sites\MySite

And the corresponding web address for this site is:

www.MyServer.com/sites/MySite

When creating the connection, you must enter these values correctly, so they point to the same folder.

To ensure that the website and network folder (or in the case of FTP and SFTP, the FTP folder) are the same,

Contribute uploads a temporary file using the path information you provide. Contribute then attempts to read the

temporary file through HTTP, using the web address you provide. If Contribute succeeds in locating the temporary

file, the paths match, and Contribute creates the connection. If the paths don’t match, Contribute prompts you again

for the correct path.

Note:

If your users will use FTP to connect to a website folder in the FTP Host folder, you must provide an absolute path

to the folder.

Installing Contribute and creating an administrative

connection

After you plan your website infrastructure and configure the network and server permissions for appropriate read,

write, and modify permissions, you must install a copy of Contribute and create a Contribute administrator

connection to the website.

Note:

You can create as many administrative connections as necessary, depending on how many sites and subsites you

need to establish.

Go ahead and install Contribute, and then gather the information you need for connecting (see “Preparing to

connect to a website” on page 21) and establish your administrative connection (see “Creating a Contribute website

connection” on page 22).

Preparing to connect to a website

Before you begin, gather the following information:

Your user name and e-mail address

The user name and e-mail address identify users and the web pages they are working on. Contribute prevents

multiple users from simultaneously editing the same web page. (Contribute uses a system much like the Dream-

weaver check in/check out system to avoid editing conflicts.)