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Contents
Chapter 1: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Understanding Contribute user management models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Common website configurations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
Deployment roles and responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Deployment tasks checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Chapter 2: Preparing Your Network and Installing
Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Preparing your web server before you deploy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Planning your Contribute site structure and connection path. . . . . . . 22
Installing Contribute and creating an administrative connection . . . . 30
Installing Contribute Publishing Server (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 3: Configuring Contribute and Contribute Publishing
Server to work with your website. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring Contribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Configuring Contribute Publishing Server (CPS only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Enabling Contribute websites to work with CPS (CPS only) . . . . . . . 55
Adding users to your website (CPS only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Deploying Contribute and website connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Deploying Contribute across an organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69