Wiki Page > Deploying new client sites to emeraldintouchcom

These pages are designed to help Emerald staff deploy new client sites to the Emerald InTouch client domain, emeraldintouch.com.

At the time of writing, two client sites exist:

• mdx.emeraldintouch.com
• kentz.emeraldintouch.com

To deploy a new site, e.g newsite.emeraldintouch.com please follow these steps

1. Request to IT/Claritas to create new sub-domain 'newsite.emeraldintouch.com' and ask that the new sub-domain points to IP address 83.138.175.85
2. From the site files for emeraldintouch.com open the file config.php
3. For the new site, include the following lines:
1. if($DomainName == "newsite.emeraldintouch.com")
   {
       include('NEWSITE_config.php');
   }
2. Save the file and upload to the site
   
4. Make a copy of the file 'Original Config.php' and rename the copy to the name referred to in step 3, e.g. NEWSITE_config.php
5. There are a number of modifications to make to the new confg file. Follow this link to discover the changes you need to make, and why InTouch Configuration File Changes for New Sites
6. The new site will require its own template for presenting the content and site according to particular design requirements.
7. The default template fiels are found in the site file in the folder /_templates/Default_template
8. Make a copy of this folder and paste the copy to the folder /_templates
9. Give the new folder a name. The name should be the same as the site, and is referred to from the modified config.php file you created in step 5.
10. To give the site some identity edit the CSS file, intouch.css
11. Should you wish to upload and include a logo file the file should be in the format .gif or .jpeg. The image file must be uploaded to the folder 'img/surround/'.
12. To include the new logo, open the file 'pageshell' from your new Template folder and change the reference to 'SpacesLogo.gif' to your new image filename.

Your new EmeraldInTouch site is ready. Upload the amended files to the appropriate new folders and test by visiting

http://newsite.emeraldintouch.com

For a new Installation you will see a screen annoucing the success of the datatabase creation procedures. Scroll to the bottom of the screen to click continue to open the site.

If Wiki pages are installed then you must make one final step. You must log in as the administrator. A new installation creates the user 'news', with the password 'password'.

Log in as this user and go to the page

http://newsite.emeraldintouch.com/mod/folio/html/setupdb.php

The wiki pages Database is created. 

Congratulations! your new Emerald InTouch client site is ready for new users.