Activation

Magnolia is typically installed with at least one Author and one Public instance.

Author instance: This is the Magnolia instance where the authors and editors work on the Website. Authentication is required to access the Author instance.

Public instance: Similar or same as the Author instance, except that there is no AdminCentral available and all the content authoring tools are disabled. This instance is what the outside Internet world will see.

Once the authors have finalized their page(s) or changes, they will have to activate them.

Activation

Activation is the process of copying content from one repository of a Magnolia instance to the same repository on another Magnolia instance. The term "activation" is based on the fact that this "copy process" is usually done from an Author instance to one or more Public instances.

But how does Magnolia know where to activate too?

About Subscribers

As you may imagine we will need to configure where to send the activated pages too. This configuration is called Subscriber. A Subscriber holds the information needed to define the receiving Magnolia instance. The Subscriber has two sections:

• Connectivity information: host name and port number of the receiver instance.
• Page context : the activated page has to be within the defined scope of pages.

This screenshot shows the default Subscriber you get after installing Magnolia. The installation creates an Author and a Public instance, plus it adds the Subscriber to activate pages.