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Staging and site settings

Matthew K., modified 4 Years ago.

Staging and site settings

Junior Member Posts: 74 Join Date: 8/31/15 Recent Posts
Hello everybody!
I am currently evaluating the Liferay staging feature. At the beginning I just enabled the Local Live setting. One feature I need is to publish site settings (i.e. expando values) from staged to live site. With Local Live setting enabled I noticed that site settings are immediately applied to the live site. The staged site is not affected by any changes on site settings.
I did not try the Remote Live setting because getting all the configuration together seems kind of complicated. But I hope you can answer me this question. So is the publishing behaviour different if I enable the Remote Live setting? So basically I need to know if changes to the site settings first are only visible to the staged site and only after publication are visible to the remote site.
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David H Nebinger, modified 4 Years ago.

RE: Staging and site settings

Liferay Legend Posts: 14914 Join Date: 9/2/06 Recent Posts
It is called staging, but at the end of the day it is implemented as two different sites.

So as long as you update the staging site settings, the settings would not apply to live. During publication, I believe they are part of the publication content.

It is possible that I'm wrong, though, because I normally don't try publishing site settings changes. They tend to be fairly static and small and rarely occur, so even if it is a manual effort to apply settings to two different sites, it should not be extremely difficult to manage.