Install a pre-rendered delivery server

You can pre-render a complete IBM Lotus Web Content Management site into HTML and save it to disk. The pre-rendered site can then be used as your live site and displayed to end users using either Web Content Management or a Web server. You deploy a pre-rendered site when you are not using any WebSphere Portal features and your content is static and is only updated periodically.

Restrictions

• Sites, site areas, and content items cannot contain characters that are considered invalid in file names by the operating system on which you are pre-rendering.

  For example, on a machine running Windows, these characters are invalid: / \ : * ? " < > |.

• The path to the content item, including the directory path to which you are pre-rendering (for example, site/site area/content) cannot exceed the operating system's maximum path length:

  • 255 characters in Windows

  • 1024 characters in Linux

• The pre-rendering feature cannot be used to pre-render JSP components.

• The Search component cannot be used in pre-rendered sites.

• The Page navigation component cannot be used in pre-rendered sites.

• Personalization elements can only be pre-rendering if the personalization rule is configured for anonymous access.

Site security

Item security for read access for different users set in a Web Content Management environment is not transferred to pre-rendered sites. The security for the entire pre-rendered site is based on the connect.moduleconfig.cacher.rendereruser property as set in the pre-rendering configuration of WCMConfigService.properties.

• Pre-rendering a Web site

  Pre-rendering can be configured to run automatically, or you can manually pre-render a site using a URL.

• Accessing the pre-rendered site

  Pre-rendered sites are accessed either through IBM Lotus Web Content Management, or through a Web server.

Parent topic:

Web content delivery methods

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