Managing your servers

Before you begin to manage your site using the Site Management page, you must add the source and target servers to the Resource Manager portlet. After adding the servers to the portlet, you can edit and remove servers and manage access to the servers.

1. Log on as an administrator to the server where you will manage your site.
2. Perform the following steps to add a new server:
   1. Navigate to the Site Management page by clicking Administration > Site Management.
   2. Click Manage servers > Add new server.
   3. Enter the fully qualified Host name for the server.
   4. Enter the server Port number.
   5. Enter the server Path. You can accept the default path, for example:/wps/mycontenthandler.
      Note: If you configure a virtual portal, then the path is as follows:

      • If the virtual portlet was created by defining the URL context:

        /wps/mycontenthandler/vpid

        where vpid is the URL context of the virtual portal. To determine that URL context, open the Manage Virtual Portals portlet and view the virtual portal by clicking its Edit icon. Example:

        http://www.server.de:10040/wps/mycontenthandler/sales

      • If the virtual portal was defined by the host name:

        http://vphost:port/wps/mycontenthandler

        where the host and port of the virtual portal are specified. Example:

        ttp://www.salesserver.de:10040/wps/mycontenthandler

   6. Assign a unique name for the server.
   7. Check the Use Secure Sockets Layer option if the server is set up for SSL.
   8. Click OK to save your changes, or click Cancel to exit without saving your changes.
3. Perform the following steps to Manage server access:

   Use the Manage server access option to provide or update the login credentials to servers that you are managing.

   1. Click Manage servers and then select Manage server access.
   2. Select the server that you want to access from the drop-down menu.
   3. Enter the User name for the server.
   4. Enter the Password for the server.
   5. Click Save to save the information, or click Done to exit without saving the information.
4. Perform the following steps to edit a server:
   1. Click Manage servers and then select Edit > servername.
   2. Edit the fully qualified Host name for the server.
   3. Edit the server Port number.
   4. Edit the server Path.
   5. Check the Use Secure Sockets Layer option if the server is set up for SSL.
   6. Click OK to save your changes, or click Cancel to exit without saving your changes.
5. Perform the following steps to remove a server:
   1. Click Manage servers and then select Remove > servername.
   2. Click OK to delete the server or Cancel to exit without deleting the server.
6. Optional: If you use a SUN server as the target server, perform the following steps:
   1. Log in to the target Web server administrative console.
   2. Add Write and Delete access control roles to the anyone users and groups.
   3. Save and submit your changes.
   4. Restart the Web server.
   If you use a SUN server as your target server and you do not perform these additional steps, the browser might prompt you for the Web server administrator user ID and password when you publish a page to this target server. Even if you enter the correct user ID and password, the prompt will be displayed over and over again. The reason is that by default the SUN Web server does not have the write and delete access control rules. Publishing a page to the target server requires write and delete access rights, but the default SUN Web server installation does not grant these two access rights to anyone.