Create a Publication

To really verify that everything is working correctly, you need a publication in the database. The quickest way to achieve this is to add one of the demo publications included with the installation. To add the demo-temp-dev publication (which is a very simple, stripped down publication with almost no content):

1. Download the publication WAR file from one of your engine-hosts to the machine on which you are working. You will find demo-temp-dev.war in the /opt/escenic/engine/contrib/wars folder.

2. Open a browser, and access the escenic-admin web application on one of your editorial-hosts by entering:

   http://editorial-host-ip-address:8080/escenic-admin/

   in the browser address field. The following page is displayed:

   

3. Click on New publications. The following page is displayed:

   

4. Click on the Choose File button and locate the demo-temp-dev.war file you have copied to your local machine.

5. Click on Upload. The following page is displayed:

   

6. Click on the create a publication link. The following page is displayed:

   

7. Enter a name for the publication and an administrator password in the displayed form, then click on Submit. The following page is displayed:

   

You have now created a publication. If you click on Home and then Status to redisplay the status pages, you should see that all the warnings that were displayed earlier have now been replaced by icons. This should be the case not only on the editorial-host where you are currently working, but on all your engine-hosts.

The demo-temp-dev publication is now present in the database, and can be edited, but cannot be viewed from a browser until the demo-temp-dev web application is deployed on the application server. To deploy demo-temp-dev, do the following on your assembly-host, while logged in as escenic:

1. Copy demo-temp-dev.war to the assembly tool's publications folder:

   $ cp /opt/escenic/engine/contrib/wars/demo-temp-dev.war /opt/escenic/assemblytool/publications/

2. Create a text file called demo-temp-dev.properties in the /opt/escenic/assemblytool/publications/ folder, with the following contents:

   name:          demo-temp-dev
   source-war:    demo-temp-dev.war
   context-root:  /demo-temp-dev

3. Reassemble the Content Engine installation:

   $ ece assemble

Then, on each engine-host, while logged in as escenic:

1. If you are installing everything on one host, then skip this step.

   On each engine-host, copy /var/cache/escenic/engine.ear from the assembly-host. If you have installed an SSH server on the assembly-host and SSH clients on your engine-hosts, then you can do this as follows:

   $ scp -r escenic@assembly-host-ip-address:/var/cache/escenic/engine.ear /var/cache/escenic/

   where assembly-host-ip-address is the host name or IP address of your assembly-host.

2. Redeploy the Content Engine:

   $ ece deploy

3. Restart the Content Engine:

   $ ece restart

4. Open a browser and enter the following URL in the address field:

   http://engine-host-ip-address:8080/publication-name/

   where publication-name is the name you gave to your demo-temp-dev publication. This should display the publication.