Content Server

Automated Publishing with Frontier

Content Server is an automated system for managing large web sites with lots of authors.

Content Server allows your designers to design and your writers to write. Writers don't need to know html, graphics professionals don't need to learn site management, web designers don't need to create every page by hand.

In a nutshell: Content Server allows you to run Frontier's web site management system on your Mac OS server. You provide access via email and FTP to your writers and designers, and their uploaded and emailed content is automatically rendered into web pages.

Download ContentServer 1.0.1

ftp://ftp.scripting.com//userland/contentServer.sit.hqx

This version was released 4/4/97. See Change Notes to find out what's new and what's fixed.

User's Guide Contents

Setting Up
Instructions on installing and configuring Content Server.

Email Publishing
How to configure AIMS and Content Server to allow for web pages to be published via email.

FTP Publishing
How to set up NetPresenz to allow for publishing via FTP.

CGI Publishing
Setting up web forms based publishing.

Talking to Your Users
Instructions on telling your writers and designers how to use the system.

Publisher Menu
A quick reference to the various menu items in the Content Server's menu.

Open Folders
A special topic: folders that anyone can publish in via email.

File Readers
Writing custom text file importings.

Hooks
Add your own scripts to the processing of files.

Browser Tips
Training your browser to browse dynamic web sites.

Server Tips
How to run a stable web server with Frontier.

Q & A
Answers to some questions you may have.

Pointers
More information on Frontier, web site management, and Mac OS servers.

Change Notes
A reverse-chronological summary of changes in the various releases of Content Server.

Talking about Content Server

The place for feedback, bug reports, suggestions, and feature requests is the "Frontier Webmaster list". Let's center Content Server discussion on that list, and leave the Frontier-talk, Frontier-beginners, and Frontier-code lists for other discussions.

Required Software

Content Server runs only on Mac OS computers right now. Along with server software, you need to provide FTP access and email access. We recommend NetPresenz for FTP and AIMS for email.

ContentServer also requires Frontier, naturally.

Next: Setting Up