QUT server quick reference

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The following information is to be used as a 'Quick Start' to configure your computer to access the QUT Central Server. If you need further details, please view the relevant section on the website (accessed by the left navigation). You can also contact the Web Team to discuss any problems you may have.

Server path

When you are given access to the central server, you should be sent the server path information for your website. You may have more than one server path if you look after more than one website. The paths should look like the following:

For development:
\\wwwsamba\dev-www.sitename.qut.edu.au

For production:
\\wwwsamba\www.sitename.qut.edu.au

Further information on mapping drives can be found on the connecting to the server page.

Previewing the websites

When you wish to preview changes made to the development site, the URL has a prefix of dev- before the site name. Example URLs for the sites are:

For development:
http://dev-www.sitename.qut.edu.au/

For production:
http://www.sitename.qut.edu.au/

It is recommended that you read the information on using Development and Production Areas

Publishing files to production

When you are ready to publish your files from development to production, you need to copy your updated files to the production drive (using mapped drives or Dreamweaver).

After you copy the files, the production site is not immediately updated. This is important so that you can copy across your changed files, and after all changes have been made then publish the site. We recommend that you wait until all files are updated before publishing, and not publish each separate file one at a time.

When you wish to update production, copy the file from the development to the production area, which is called PUBLISH_SITE.txt this will cause the production site to be updated within 10 minutes. When the site is updated, it is recommended that you check that the changes are correct on the production server via a web browser. This file needs to be copied to the root folder of the website.

Once the files have been updated the PUBLISH_SITE.txt file is removed from the production directory automatically. When this happens, it is recommended that you check that the changes are correct on the production server via a web browser.

For further information go to Updating your Pages in Production