HOW-TO: Put a Site in Production
This HOW-TO assumes you're an administrator of slate. This also assumes you've already set-up the space and put in the appropriate content.
- Write to OIT and ask for a new hostname. Ask Dave or Jay for how to do this. It'll take two (2) business days for entries to be added to DNS. Do this for departments and special cases only. Otherwise rely on our wildcard hostnames (e.g. *.blogs.wvu.edu).
- Ask your user(s) to sign-up for an account(s) by going to the main login page for slate and clicking 'Request an account'
- When they have verifed themselves and an admin has signed off on their account go to the space and add the new user(s).
- Make sure you set one user as "Site admin" otherwise the user will have no rights in the system. Set-up roles as appropriate for other users.
- Double-check that the hostname works. Let the user know their site is live.
So that a site administrator can get statistics please see the HOW-TO on how to set-up Google Analytics. If this is a blog you may also want to set-up a Feedburner account for them as well though it's not required.
