Overview

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If you maintain a web server environment that meets the requirements for website hosting, you can host your website in a data center outside of ITS.

Critical Concepts

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•  ITS will evaluate your datacenter to make sure it meets hosting requirements.
• Two options will work with the CMS. Ask your department about preferences based on your IT structure:
  • One webserver
    1. Staging and Delivery
  • Two webservers
    1. Staging
    2. Delivery
       
       

Steps to Take

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One Webserver

Publishing will go to either of the two folders called staging and delivery. To set up publishing with one server:

1. Send the following information to us:
   • Server Name: <IP address or fully qualified DNS name>
   • Server Port: <Usually '22'>
   • Server Directory: <file path to place files>
   • Username: <cms-user>
   • Password: <cms-user-password>
2. Create staging and delivery folders under the Server Directory mentioned above. These folders will be needed for the DNS or virtual name mapping in Step 4.
   
   
   • Example: If the Server Directory location is /var/www/cms, then create a folder called staging and delivery underneath that. The server should now have: /var/www/cms/staging and /var/www/cms/delivery
3. If your system has a firewall, make sure you unblock these CMS IPs: 172.26.1.12 and 172.26.2.8
4. Map the DNS or virtual name of your site to the Server Directory.
   1. Map Staging URL to <Server Directory>/staging
   2. Map Delivery URL to <Server Directory>/delivery.
      
      Example:
      stage-foo.com maps to /var/www/cms/staging
      foo.com maps to /var/www/cms/delivery

Two Web Servers

One server is set up for "staging" and the other is set up for "delivery". To set up publishing with two servers:

1. Send the following information to us:
   
   
   • STAGING Server:
     Server Name: <IP address or fully qualified DNS name>
     Server Port: <Usually '22'>
     Server Directory: <file path to place files>
     Username: <cms-user>
     Password: <cms-user-password>
     
     
   • DELIVERY Server:
     Server Name: <IP address or fully qualified DNS name>
     Server Port: <Usually '22'>
     Server Directory: <file path to place files>
     Username: <cms-user>
     Password: <cms-user-password>
     
     
2. If your system has a firewall, make sure you unblock these CMS IPs: 172.26.1.12 and 172.26.2.8
3. Map Staging URL to <Server Directory> of STAGING server
4. Map Delivery URL to <Server Directory> of DELIVERY server
   
   
   • Example:
     stage-foo.com maps to /var/www/cms/ of <stage-foo.com-web-server>
     foo.com maps to /var/www/cms/ of <foo.com-web-server>