Production Server
Digest
A Production Server is a web server that delivers what is often called the "live site." It is typically available to the entire web and houses the most recent version of its respective site.
Concept
Introduction to Production Server
As opposed to a staging server, which might house untested and, indeed, broken components, the files served by a production server are generally assumed to have undergone extensive testing.
The production server is set up in an environment separate from Cascade Server. Pages, images, documents and other web-related items are published out to a production server using the CMS. Typically, the production server contains a web services platform which allows the testing environment to be hosted and viewed within the confines of a company or other limited network. Please contact your network administrator about setting up a production server for your Cascade Server content.
How Cascade Relates to a Production Server
Cascade Server has a robust publishing engine designed to bake the files out in the development environment, and synchronize those environments with one or more production servers. The assembled content is transformed into native XML files, standard HTML, and/or any scripting language desired. The strength of this system is that upon publishing of content, the information is completely decoupled from the CMS, allowing it to operate independently in any standard environment. Single points of failure such as database connections and third party servers are mitigated as the content has been “compiled.”
Technical
Publishing a Page or Folder (To Production Server)
When a page is published, all of the elements that make up that page are rendered as HTML and sent to the live web server (also called the production server), enabling it to be accessed as part of the website.
To publish a page, simply select the page from the left asset tree, and select the Publish tab. All available targets and destinations for that page will be listed and can be checked or unchecked as desired. Each output type, such as HTML, PDF, WMA, XML, etc. will have its own target/destination.
Check whether you would like a publish report generated. This report will appear in your dashboard, under messages, and will alert you to any problems.
ADDITIONAL NOTES - To publish via Publish Set, go to the appropriate publish set under the Administration area and click publish for that component.
Folders may also be published by following the same steps for the folder. All pages and subfolders within that folder will be published.