Overview
Your live Slate site will be a mirror of your staging site, where you can apply a minimal number of configuration changes on top of staging to tune your instance for production. It also serves to hold back changes you make on staging from your users until you are ready to publish them.
Prerequisite steps
Create a live site
Log in to your Emergence server’s control panel (http://example.com:9083).
Right click on the row for the staging site you created in the previous step.
Select Create inheriting site.
In the Site Label field, enter something like My School Name.
Tab to Handle and a handle will be suggested for your site. The handle will serve as a sort-of “username” for the site within other systems, so it needs to be simple, short, and unique. For your live site, we recommend a handle matching your staging site’s handle, but without the -staging suffix.
Due to restrictions in other tools, handles must be 16 characters or less. If the system highlights your handle as an error, it may be too long.
Tab to the Primary Hostname field and enter a fully qualified domain name that will resolve to your Emergence server and be used to access your live site.
If your domain name is example.com, you might enter slate.example.com here. Then create an “A record” in your domain control panel for example.com, pointing slate.example.com to the IP address of your Emergence machine.
Tab to the Alt. Hostnames field. You can leave this field blank, or enter any number of additional hostnames that you want to use to access this staging site.
Under the First User section, fill in details for your initial account. This should be personal to you, and will give you access to log in and make changes to your Slate site and its code. You can create additional accounts for other developers, administrators, and users later on, from within Slate.
Finally, click Save Site and Emergence will set up the site instance for you. The new site will show up at the bottom of your sites list with a red marker to indicate that it’s saving. Once the red marker disappears, your site is ready and you can open it through the primary hostname you assigned.
