Publishing-Templates and CMS - Carnegie Mellon University

February 15, 2011

We are currently experiencing performance problems with the CMS. While we work on the problem, please avoid publishing during the day.

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General information about publishing

The publish queue is shared by everyone who uses the CMS. Depending on traffic, it may take longer than you expect to see the published changes you make to your website. If you don't see your changes, check the publish queue, rather than re-submitting your job. Re-submitting your job only clogs up the queue with redundant publish requests.

Publishing to the staging server

The staging server allows you and others to review your website content before it goes live. When you are given your site, your only destination when publishing is cms-staging (the staging server). To view your site on the staging server, type http://cms-staging.andrew.cmu.edu/your-site-name-here into the url.

publish to staging

Launching your site for the first time

When you are ready for the initial launch of your site, you will need to contact a member of the CMS team. Please send us the url to your site on the staging server at least two weeks in advance of your planned launch date to allow time for review and technical preparations for launch.

Publish large collections [100+ pages] after hours

Large collections of files should be published after hours (after 5:30 p.m. or before 6 a.m.). Large publish jobs may delay another user's time-sensitive publish job and can also put a load on the server and affect overall system performance. When possible, publish a page or a smaller group of files.

Publishing Tips

  • When publishing a newly-created page for the first time, you MUST publish the parent folder for that page
  • When publishing a parent folder, files within that folder will also be published
  • Large collections [100+ pages] should be published after hours
  • If your job is taking longer than you expected to publish, check your place in the publish queue. Do NOT re-submit your job, that will only back up the publishing queue further.