Yeah, the cleaner will help a bit. You'll want to watch it for the first few days just to make sure it is working right for you. If for no other reason than to put your mind at ease.
We actually publish to a directory on the CMS server and then use CuteFTP to send the files to our web servers. We use Cute to sync the servers and if a file is present on the web server, but not the CMS publishing target, the file on the server gets deleted. The only issue is with deleting the files in the pub target. That's what the cleaner is for. I think we've found that while it will remove published pages, it may not remove published assets. So, you may find things like old PDF forms are still on your server. Because of this, it's not a bad idea to wipe the the publishing target and do a full publish once or twice a year. If you have multiple servers behind a load balancer, you'll just need to take all but one out of the loop, resync the files on them, put them back into the balancer and then resync the one that was up during the resyncing of the others. This will keep your site up and running. On Dec 18, 12:06 pm, Josh Carver <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > I wondered if anyone has a brilliant way of cleaning up their live > server, and I don't mean Live Server, but web server. > > There is a check box in red dot to clean up live server which is > supposed to delete the pages from your webserver that were deleted in > the CMS. However, this is terribly buggy and is deleting entire > directories from my project. I emailed some other developers and they > too have seen this behavior and no longer use the "clean up live > server" function. > > But I still need someway of auto deleting files off the server to > match whats in the CMS. What I do now is periodically ftp in to the > server and remove files with old publication dates, but the users want > something more immediate, and I am really gambling that what I am > deleting is really meant for deletion. > > Does anyone have a solution for this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users?hl=en.
