Enabling CPS to work with your website

Before you can start using CPS with your website, you must install and configure CPS (see CPS Console Help for information about configuring). You must also create a Contribute connection to your website (see Creating a website connection).

After you've completed those tasks, you can enable CPS for your website.

Tip: Before you enable CPS to use the User Directory with your website, make sure that any users who previously connected to the site using a connection key publish all outstanding drafts. After you enable CPS for your website, those users cannot connect to the website until you add them to the website from your LDAP, Active Directory, or file-based user database.

To start using CPS with your website:

  1. Start Contribute.
  2. Select Edit > Administer Websites (Windows) or Contribute > Administer Websites (Macintosh), and then select the website you want to administer from the submenu.

    The Administer Website dialog box appears.

  3. Select Publishing Server from the list of administrative categories on the left.

  4. Click the Enable Publishing Server button.

    The Enable Publishing Server dialog box appears.



  5. Enter the Publishing Server web address in the address field, and then click OK.

    For more information about options in this dialog box, see Setting the Enable Publishing Server dialog box options.

    Contribute establishes a connection to CPS, and you can launch the CPS Console.

    Note: When you enable the User Directory, any users who previously connected to the site are removed, and any connection keys you may have previously sent no longer work. You must add users from your LDAP, Active Directory, or file-based user database. To learn how to add users to sites that CPS manages, see Adding users to websites that CPS manages.

  6. (Optional) In the Administer Website dialog box, click the Publishing Server Console link to launch the CPS Console.



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