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When you set up a site, it's a good idea to give users read access on the server to the /_mm folder
(the _mm subfolder of the root folder), the /Templates folder, and all of the folders containing
assets that they will need to use.
If for some reason you can't give users read access to the /Templates folder, see
Contribute users to access templates without root folder access" on page 142
with templates.
Contribute special files
Contribute uses a variety of special files that aren't intended to be viewed by visitors to your site.
These files include:
•
The shared settings file, an XML file with a name like contribute.xml, which appears in a
folder named _mm in the root folder of the site, and contains information that Contribute
uses to manage the site
•
Older versions of files, in folders named _baks (see
templates without root folder access" on page
•
Temporary versions of pages, so that users can preview changes
•
Temporary lock files, indicating that a given page is being edited or previewed
•
Design Notes files containing metadata about the site's pages
In general, you shouldn't edit any of these Contribute special files using Dreamweaver;
Dreamweaver manages them automatically.
If you don't want these Contribute special files to appear on your publicly accessible server, you
can set up a staging server where Contribute users work on pages. Then you can periodically copy
those web pages from the staging server to a production server that's on the web. If you take this
staging-server approach, copy only web pages to the production server, not any of the above-listed
Contribute special files. In particular, don't copy the _mm and _baks folders to the
production server.
Note: For information about setting up a server to prevent visitors from seeing files in folders that
begin with an underscore, see "Website security" in Administering Contribute Help in Contribute.
If you aren't using a staging server, you may want to manually delete old revisions in _baks folders
now and then to ensure that those older file versions can't be viewed by visitors. In some
circumstances, you might need to manually delete other Contribute special files.
For example, there might be circumstances in which Contribute fails to delete temporary preview
pages when the user is finished previewing; in that case, you would have to manually delete those
temporary pages. Temporary preview pages have filenames that begin with TMP.
Similarly, under some circumstances an outdated lock file may be accidentally left on the server. If
that happens, you must manually delete the lock file to allow others to edit the page. For
information on how to delete the lock file, see
on page 142.
"Enabling Contribute users to access
142)
"Unlocking a file in a Contribute site"
About managing Contribute sites
"Enabling
to supply users
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