Re: Using different Publishing Targets

[Tim D]

Why not add a second publishing target and use virtual directories and security at the web server to serve them appropriately abstracted from how they are written to the file system. Yes there is some waste in transfer.

If you add a project variant you can publish to another target but it will send pages and images.

Best,

Tim

On Thursday, November 28, 2013 4:39:36 AM UTC-5, Neil Fegen wrote:

Hi all

We currently have one publishing target, which publishes all HTML pages, content from each image folder, scripts, etc.

I'd like this main variant to continue publishing our pages but use a second target to publish all the images, scripts - is this possible to set up? I can't find an easy way to separate out the image folders from each publishing package as they seem tied to the default project variant?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Neil

[Jian Huang]

Everyone,

 

I had a similar conversation with another client a year ago.

 

He wanted the publishing to be published 2 servers.  Naturally, we would setup 2 publishing targets.  However, know how CMS publish works, CMS would finish publishing to one target before beginning to publish to another target, hence creating a large publishing time window.

 

I suggested an alternative solution.  On web server #1, setup a file system watcher, on file change, copy file to server #2.

 

This is really a choice of Information System management.  Does one want to control the publishing setting from 1 system (CMS) or multiple systems (CMS + A webserver).

 

Neil, in your case, the choice is up to you as well.  2 publishing targets or 1 publish target + a replication/cleanup process somewhere else.

 

Best regards,

 

-Jian

On Monday, December 2, 2013 10:51:25 AM UTC-5, Neil Fegen wrote:

Hi Tim

Thanks for the reply.

We want minimal publishing overhead so think we'll do a one-time copy of the image folder to the new server, and then run a job to pick up any changes from the source folder and replicate as required.

Thanks

Neil