MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3 - DEPLOYING AND PUBLISHING SERVER Manual page 13

In regard to Contribute, the use of a staging server lets you copy only folders and files that you
specify as necessary for your website. This enables you to use Contribute to update web content
on the staging server, but only publish the necessary web pages to your production web server for
public access.
By configuring Contribute to work with content on your staging server, you can provide an extra
measure of security by not copying Contribute's administrative files and folders to your
production server. This also lets you eliminate the presence of unnecessary files from a server with
public access.
_mm (Shared settings)
index.html
PRODUCTION SERVER
outside firewall
New and updated web content is
copied from the staging server
to the production server
Firewall
STAGING SERVER
inside firewall
Contribute users create
and update content on
the staging server
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