[Web4lib] Moving Content between Web Site Servers

[Cary Gordon]

IMHO, there is no reason to have a separate staging server when your
CMS has a sufficient workflow system.

That is, of course, a subjective call, but the bottom line, from my
point of view, is that if you can accomplish your mission without it,
then ditch it.

Cary

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:19 PM, David Whelan <davidpwhelan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Leo.  There is workflow, and it's used for content approval on the
> staging server.  We are not able to do content updates on the production
> server, so we wouldn't be able to use workflow there as you describe.
>
> Although I guess that begs a question.  If you have a CMS and workflow
> options, are there good reasons to use both staging and production servers
> just for content, or is running just a production instance enough?  Our site
> is relatively small (10-15000 pieces of content, mostly archival) and we
> have a development instance for testing, etc.
>
> Thanks again for any help.  Best, David.
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Leo Robert Klein <leo at leoklein.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not familiar with Ektron but my first question would be, is there some
>> kind of workflow capability?
>>
>> If so, you could create steps or stages on the production server -- only
>> the last of which would be visible to the public.
>>
>> That way you'd get around having to house two separate servers.
>>
>> LEO
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>> On 5/3/2011 1:42 PM, David Whelan wrote:
>>
>>> We are using Ektron's CMS (v8) and it comes with a synchronization tool to
>>> move the content that is updated by our staff on a staging server out to
>>> our
>>> production server.  It seems to fail about every other week, unfortunately
>>> not with a recurring or fixable error.
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any recommendations on alternatives, either software or
>>> some DIY method, of moving content (one-way) from staging out to
>>> production
>>> servers in a CMS environment?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>>
>>> David Whelan
>>>
>>> (Great Library, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, ON)
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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