Manage your servers

Before you begin to manage your site using the Site Management page, 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.

You manage your servers from the Site Management page. To navigate to the Site Management page, from the portal home page, select Administration > Site Management. You must be an administrator to use the site management functions.

If you use the Portal Scripting Interface scripts to publish pages instead of the Resource Manager portlet on the Site Management page, you do not need to perform these steps for managing your servers. With the scripts you pass the configuration data as parameters .

To manage your servers using the Site Management page:

1. Log on as an administrator to the server where you will manage your site.

2. 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.

      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:

        http://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. 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. 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. Edit the Assign a unique name for the server.

   6. Check the Use Secure Sockets Layer option if the server is set up for SSL.

   7. Click OK to save your changes, or click Cancel to exit without saving your changes.

5. 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.

• Secure HTTP proxy

  To prevent cross site scripting in Web applications, browsers introduced the so called same-origin policy. This policy prevents client side scripts used in the Resource Manager portlet from loading content from an origin that has a different protocol, domain name, or port. To overcome this restriction, the Resource Manager portlet uses the server side HTTP proxy provided by the portal.

Parent topic:

Manage your site

Related tasks

Enable remote access to your servers
Publish your page
Providing reviewer access to a published page
Promote your page
Demote your page
Republishing and promoting a page

Related reference

Site management extension of the Portal Scripting Interface

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