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Chapter 1: Using Contribute Publishing Server
To access and use the Simple File Deployment service:
1.
In a browser, enter the address for the Simple File Deployment service.
The default install path is
https://server:8900/contribute/customservices/
filedeployer/
.
The Simple File Deployment service shows a list of files that have been published, deleted, or
rolled back on the staging server.
2.
Select the check box beside each file you want to deploy to the live server.
Tip:
Click the
Select All
button to select all the files at once. You can click the
Deselect All
button
if you decide that you don’t want to deploy all the file changes.
The following icons indicate the type of change made to the file on the staging server.
3.
Click the
Deploy
button to deploy the selected file changes to the live server.
Contribute updates your live server with the new files.
Using the RSS Activity Feed service
Contribute Publishing Server (CPS) provides an RSS Activity Feed service that adds a syndication
feed to your website to report changes that occur on the website.
The RSS Activity Feed service converts Publish, Delete, and Roll Back events into a syndication
feed based on the Atom specification. Atom is an XML-based web content and metadata
syndication format that creates lists of information, or
feeds
. Feeds contain a number of items, or
entries
, and are typically viewed with a news reader or aggregator.
Note:
For more information on the Atom specification, see
www.atomeanbled.org
.
Changes to pages in specified folders on your websites appear as individual entries in the
syndication feed. You can use this information to monitor activity on your websites managed by
CPS. To use the service, you need to perform some set-up tasks, and then use a news reader or
aggregator to view the output from the service.
Note:
You can use the compiled version of this service as is, or you can extend the uncompiled
version to meet your specific needs. For information about extending the service, see
“About
extending the RSS Activity Feed service” on page 22
.
Icon
Change to file
Published
Deleted
Rolled back to a previous version