General advice regarding uploading content to a live site   

Some general stuff about how we are set up then my questions.

Our organisation has a web site based around mcms 2002.  We use scripts 
developed by a third party, to export content from our authoring server, ftp 
the sdo to the live server (hosted externally) and import the sdo on the live 
server.  These three scripts are executed using Windows scheduled tasks, 3 
times a day.

Users requested that we develop functionality, which would permit them to do 
immediate uploads, for example, a facility like a school is shut owing to 
severe weather.

Thanks
David

Nestle idea was to grant users access to site manager, let them export the 
page and then use a web application to ftp it to the live server.  We could 
then develop a Windows service to monitor a folder on the live web server for 
sdo files, which would execute the vbs import script.

Basically had to abandon this idea, not all the users would be site manager 
administrators and therefore have access to the export option.  Also, our 
infrastructure security would not permit users access to site manager from 
home.

I then came up with the idea of building a web page that simply ran the 
existing export and upload scripts (I'm aware that this would upload ALL 
changed content and not just the desired page).

It works on my PC but not the users.  Yes it's security.  The users have 
been given a drive mapping to where the sdo files are created but basically 
the ftp fails unless the users are given administrator rights (which won't 
happen).  I've tried writing code to trigger the scheduled jobs, run the 
scripts directly-keep hitting security problems.

Now I'm pretty confident that the users needing administrator rights to ftp 
the file (or a copy of the file), is explained by the following posting:-

http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2006/09/11/SiteDeploymentFromWebApplication.aspx

Any advice?  Been working on this for around 6 weeks and it has a high 
priority within the organisation.

date: Wed, 21 May 2008 02:21:07 -0700   author:   David

Re: General advice regarding uploading content to a live site   

Hi David,

you would need to add code to the export script that changes the permissions 
on the file.

Cheers,
Stefan

"David"  wrote in message 
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> Some general stuff about how we are set up then my questions.
>
> Our organisation has a web site based around mcms 2002.  We use scripts
> developed by a third party, to export content from our authoring server, 
> ftp
> the sdo to the live server (hosted externally) and import the sdo on the 
> live
> server.  These three scripts are executed using Windows scheduled tasks, 3
> times a day.
>
> Users requested that we develop functionality, which would permit them to 
> do
> immediate uploads, for example, a facility like a school is shut owing to
> severe weather.
>
> Thanks
> David
>
> Nestle idea was to grant users access to site manager, let them export the
> page and then use a web application to ftp it to the live server.  We 
> could
> then develop a Windows service to monitor a folder on the live web server 
> for
> sdo files, which would execute the vbs import script.
>
> Basically had to abandon this idea, not all the users would be site 
> manager
> administrators and therefore have access to the export option.  Also, our
> infrastructure security would not permit users access to site manager from
> home.
>
> I then came up with the idea of building a web page that simply ran the
> existing export and upload scripts (I'm aware that this would upload ALL
> changed content and not just the desired page).
>
> It works on my PC but not the users.  Yes it's security.  The users have
> been given a drive mapping to where the sdo files are created but 
> basically
> the ftp fails unless the users are given administrator rights (which won't
> happen).  I've tried writing code to trigger the scheduled jobs, run the
> scripts directly-keep hitting security problems.
>
> Now I'm pretty confident that the users needing administrator rights to 
> ftp
> the file (or a copy of the file), is explained by the following posting:-
>
> http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2006/09/11/SiteDeploymentFromWebApplication.aspx
>
> Any advice?  Been working on this for around 6 weeks and it has a high
> priority within the organisation.

date: Fri, 23 May 2008 08:40:53 +0200   author:   Stefan Goßner [MSFT]