[opencms-dev] Creating A new site

[David Dyer]

Christoph Schönfeld wrote:

>
>> <site server="http://localhost:8080" uri="/sites/default/"/>
>> <site server="http://localhost:8080" uri="/sites/www/"/>
>
> I suspect that the two identical server attributes conflict with each 
> other.
>
> Provided that this is true, you will need to decide which site should 
> be available at this URL.
>
> Christoph
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Is there a document describing how this should be done or are we trying 
to do something that is not the right way to go?

I notice that a lot of CMS sites have urls that look like 
www.somedomain.tld:8080/opencms/site rather than just 
www.somedomain.tld:8080/site which looks a bit more standard. In the end 
I will probably mod_proxy the site with Apache to let the user type 
www.somedomain.tld to get to the user site and perhaps have 
openCMS.somedomain.tld point to the OpenCMS mantenance application.

The "official documentation" that we have found is not very clear about 
how to start a site and how to structure a CMS application. I guess that 
we are also having trouble figuring out how the development process 
(using localhost) should be done so that a real site can be created 
which can be uploaded in some simple way to a production server.
In the development process it is nice to have all of the OpenCMS stuff 
available through the GUI but in the end we need to be able to take 
something and put it on another server to run a production web site.
I have not found any document that describes how this is best done with 
OpenCMS.


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David Dyer
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