Magnolia

Concept

Magnolia has a number of concepts:

• Usually Magnolia is set up in such a way that you have one instance running as the authoring system, one as the public system. This provides flexibility, scalability and security.
• If an instance is author or public is determined by a setting in the Config GUI. Setting isAdmin to true will generally let you edit pages etc. Set it to false for public instances - see Changing an author instance into a public instance
• To get content from the authoring instance to the public instance(s), you use a mechanism called activation, which is executed from the GUI. Activation pushes content from the source instance (the one you are using when you click activate) to its subscribers
• There can be any number of subscribers. Subscribers are configured through the GUI. Usually, there is one subscriber only, called the public instance
• Magnolia is delivered as a single war file which per default is set up as authoring.
• Magnolia stores all content (web pages, images, documents, configuration, data) in a content repository. The repository implementation we have chosen, Apache Jackrabbit, adheres to the Java Content Repository standard (JCR).
• Launch Screen shows apps
• Pages app shows site hierachy as site tree or list view and action bar at the right
  • Pages have a template assignment which defines the look and feel
  • Pages consist of areas
  • Areas consist of components (editables are green)
• Images, documents, videos and other asset files are stored in the Assets app

Themes

A theme gives the site its visual identity through the use of images, colors and typography. A theme consists of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Javascript files, template images and an imaging configuration which tells the Imaging module how to resize and crop images for a particular page or component. The STK ships with two default themes:

• pop the black and pink look that you see in the demo-project and demo-features websites.
• pop-mobile the black and blue look you see in the the smartphone variation.

Installation

Installation according to [1]:

• download magnolia-bundled-webapp-5.2.1.war
• extract to directory magnoliaAuthor.war
• change property magnolia.home in magnoliaAuthor.war\WEB-INF\config\default\magnolia.properties to <JBOSS_DATA_DIR>\magnolia\
• create empty file magnoliaAuthor.war.dodeploy
• copy directory and empty file to <JBOSS_DIR>\standalone\deployments
• call http://localhost:8080/magnoliaAuthor
• click 'start installation'
• saved output to C:\Uwes\Documents\Magnolia\Magnolia Installation.htm
• extract to directory magnoliaPublic.war
• change property magnolia.home in magnoliaAuthor.war\WEB-INF\config\default\magnolia.properties to <JBOSS_DATA_DIR>\magnolia\
• create empty file magnoliaPublic.war.dodeploy
• copy directory and empty file to <JBOSS_DIR>\standalone\deployments

Configuration according to [2] for JBoss 7:

• edit <JBOSS_DIR>\configuration\standalone.xml according for JAAS
• edit <JBOSS_DIR>\bin\standalone.conf to increase java startup parameter for JBoss
• create module folder in <JBOSS_DIR>/modules/org/bouncycastle/main
• download jar files from [3] to this folder:
  • bcmail-jdk15on-150.jar
  • bcpg-jdk15on-150.jar
  • bcprov-ext-jdk15on-150.jar
  • bcprov-jdk15on-150.jar
• create a module.xml file in the same folder
• Create a jboss-deployment-structure.xml file in both magnolia's WEB-INF folder
• Remove the Bouncy Castle JAR files from magnolia's WEB-INF/lib folder:
  • bcmail-jdk16-1.46.jar
  • bcpg-jdk16-1.46.jar
  • bcprov-jdk16-1.46.jar