LiveSite without Production Server

carnix

Hello!

We've been using TeamSite for a few years now (since 5.0 was new...) and now investigating use of LiveSite as a replacement for the Templating system. My org is a non-profit and gets considerable support from Microsoft, as such, our entire infrastructure is Microsoft products (Win2k3 server, SQL Server, etc). Our website production environment does not include a Tomcat server, or any other Java-based application servers, and more than likely won't ever.

An Interwoven consultant mentioned that LiveSite doesn't actually NEED those components on production unless Java servlet components are going to be used. Since no one here is a Java or JSP programmer anyway, that won't ever be an issue for us. However, I can't seem to figure out how to make LiveSite spit out .asp or .aspx files...

I know about the gen_html.bat file, which can do .asp files, but I'd rather the "Generate HTML" dropdown item be configureable so that it creates .asp files rather than .html files, which we generally don't use.

How do I go about doing something like this?

thanks
-mike

wscott

You can set up a "Generate ASP" menu item by using TeamSite's built-in UITK functionality. Detailed documentation for UITK is in the file uicg.650.cg.pdf.

In the case of Generate ASP, there's already a command for it, you just need to add it to the menu. You can look in iw-home/httpd/webapps/content_center/WEB-INF/conf/livesite/ui_common.xml and search for "iw.ccpro.file.livesite.menu" and see where the Generate ASP has been commented out. A "hack" way to enable it is to uncomment that XML and restart the server. However, this will cause problems with upgrades or if you ever add other customizations using UITK. The correct way is to create a ui_common.xml file within your own customer_src tree, and insert the Generate ASP reference into it. This is a bit more involved but the documentation in uicg.650.cg.pdf has some pretty good examples so you should be able to handle it.

Please let us know if you are able to get this working.