Hi Barbara
Let me try to lighten up the dark pieces of activation.
There are two purposes for having this concept, which btw is widely
accepted worldwide:
1) Performance
2) Security
You typically have two different servers for the author and public
instance. The reason is that you can configure a nice, slick and
powerful "public-instance" server for the Internet World and have
your author instance behind tons of firewalls. Your author instance
usually also has "overhead" you do not want on the public instances.
Security is also an important issue. Imagine a large enterprise with
50 authors and they all work on the web site. It is hard (if not
impossible) to have control over content and consistency. So what a
CMS typically comes with is a WORKFLOW. Whatever authors create
usually go through a workflow, so there is at some stage a "chief-
editor" who double-checks and carries the responsibility.
What you though have to now, is that each page an author creates is
dynamically built together prior to returning to the browser. That is
done with JSP/Java. So if you want the same to happen on the public
instance, you will have to make sure that the scripts and programs
you are writing are also added to the public instance.
So after testing, move code and resources (e.g. /docroot) to the
public instance prior to activating any pages.
Cheers
Giancarlo
On Sep 14, 2007, at 6:07 AM, Baber Shah wrote:
Hi there,
I am a bit confused about activation. I understand the reasion for
activation of pages and users. However activation status is a
property
that all xml nodes in the magnolia ui and I am confused about what
activation status means in the context of these nodes e.d. templates,
dialogs, paragraphs ?
Does the activation mean anything in the context of this metadata or
does in only matter for pages and users ?
Thanks,
Baber Shah
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