System Administrators

This guide is intended to provide system administrators with the information and access to the tools they need to install and maintain Crafter CMS components.

System Requirements

Parameter Name	Description	Prerequisites
Crafter Studio	Content authoring server	Java 1.8 4+ Gig of memory to JVM
Crafter Engine	Content delivery server	Java 1.8 2+ Gig of memory to JVM
Crafter Profile	User profile and attribute store (Optional component)	Java 1.8 MongoDB 3+ (included in the bundle) 1+ Gig of memory to JVM
Crafter Social	User Generated Content server (Optional component)	Java 1.8 MongoDB 3+ (included in the bundle) 1+ Gig of memory to JVM

• See supported platforms for a detailed list and description of supported components.

Note

Crafter CMS is not yet compatible with Java 1.9. We are working on updating our code to make sure we are 100% compatible with the newest Java version.

Activities

• Installing
• Backup and Recovery
• Studio Clustering
• Configure SolrCloud for Crafter
• Logging
• Setting up a Crafter CMS production environment
• Reindexing Content for Search and Queries
• Reindexing Content Without Disrupting Service in Production
• Troubleshooting Crafter CMS
• Randomize “admin” Password for Crafter CMS Fresh Install
• Configuring Studio Security
• Configure SSL/TLS
• Deploying a Simple Crafter CMS installation in Kubernetes
• Adding a New Language
• Encrypting Configuration Properties
• Management Tokens

Upgrading Crafter CMS

• Upgrading Crafter CMS
• Docker/Kuber Instructions for Upgrading Crafter CMS

Authoring

• Authoring Environment Performance Tuning
• How To Change the Hosts and Ports on Your Crafter CMS Authoring Environment Installation
• Configuring Publishing to Staging Target
• Setup Crafter CMS Authoring Using Crafter’s AWS AMI
• Synchronize Studio Database With Repository
• Navigating the Main Menu
• Users/Groups Management

Delivery

• How To Change the Hosts and Ports on Your Crafter CMS Delivery Environment Installation
• Configuring Apache Virtual Host for Production
• Delivery Environment Performance Tuning
• Setup Site for a Delivery Environment
• Setup Serverless Delivery
• Setup Crafter CMS Delivery Using Crafter’s AWS AMI

Subsystems Administration

Crafter Commons

• Using the Encryption Tool

Crafter Deployer

• Deployer System Administration Guide
• Deployer Processors Guide
• Target Templates Guide
• Debugging Deployer Issues
• Elasticsearch Configuration Guide

Crafter Engine

• Configure Multi-Tenancy in Engine
• Configure Single-Tenancy in Engine
• Turn Off Show Error

Crafter Profile

• Crafter Profile System Administration
• Crafter Profile Admin Console UI

Crafter Search

• Crafter Search System Administration

Crafter Social

• Crafter Social System Administration
• Crafter Social Admin Console UI

Crafter Studio

• Studio’s Configuration Overrides
• Debugging Publishing Issues
• Debugging Upgrade Issues
• Site Creation with Remote Repositories
• Changing the Session Timeout

Note

Scripts and Templates Security

Crafter Engine limits access to services when developing templates or scripts, and sandboxes scripts for security by default.

Crafter Engine only allows a small list of services available to use when developing templates or scripts. There are some sites that may require services not included by default.

To expose other services, follow the guide Access to Services

Scripts are executed in a sandbox that has a blacklist of insecure expressions to prevent code that could compromise the system. There are some cases though where a site requires access to one or more of the blacklisted expressions.

To override the default script sandbox configuration, follow the guide Script Sandbox Configuration