Conventions

The instructions in the following section assume that you have a standard Content Engine installation, as described in the Escenic Content Engine Installation Guide for releases 5.2.3 and above. escenic-home is used to refer to the /opt/escenic folder under which both the Content Engine itself and all plug-ins are installed).

The Content Engine and the software it depends on may be installed on one or several host machines depending on the type of installation required. In order to unambiguously identify the machines on which various installation actions must be carried out, the Escenic Content Engine Installation Guide defines a set of special host names that are used throughout the manual.

Some of these names are also used here:

assembly-host

The machine used to assemble the various Content Engine components into a enterprise archive (EAR) or .ear file.

engine-host

The machine(s) used to host application servers and Content Engine instances.

The following Forum-specific host names are used as well:

forum-database-host

The machine used to host the Forum database server. For production purposes, you are strongly recommended to create a separate database for your forum data, located on a separate host, rather than using the main Content Engine database to store forum data. This ensures:

• Better performance

• The physical separation of user-generated content from editorial content

The host names always appear in a bold typeface. If you are installing everything on one host you can, of course, ignore them: you can just do everything on the same machine. If you are creating a larger multi-host installation, then they should help ensure that you do things in the right places.