Deploying Contribute for multiple websites on one web server

This scenario has several departmental intranet sites, each of which needs access restricted to members of the given department. To accomplish this, the administrator creates a separate Contribute connection for each department’s folder in the website (to essentially create subsites). In addition, each department has its own set of Dreamweaver templates on which to base new pages.

When connecting users to their respective sites, the administrator creates and distributes a connection key for each website connection.

In this scenario, three administrator connections are created. The site administrators create a connection to their department’s section of the website (for example, /myIntranet/sales). Additional roles can be created to define any restrictions for users in the site (for example, to specific subfolders in the Sales folder or to set editing options).

Users can browse the entire site but are restricted to editing in their department’s folder. This way, individual groups can maintain control over their web content and can act more independently with the content they make available to the entire organization. A potential drawback to this arrangement is that users in different departments cannot collaborate on pages. Each department must work independently.

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