Once your copy of the framework has been made, you will need to configure your site using the steps below.
Be sure you’ve completed the prerequisites, since requesting the framework does not get you a virtual host or Sitehost account.
1. Settings block
In the base folder of your framework site, you will have a block asset called 
Settings
- Account Name: Sitehost/Sitehost Test account name
- Staging URL (required): The Sitehost Test URL, for example https://account.sitehost-test.iu.edu
- Live URL (required): The Sitehost virtual host URL, for example https://framework.iu.edu
- Page Extension (required): The default is
.htmland will work with PHP via an .htaccess AddHandler.
- Navigation rendering: By default, navigation is rendered on the server with PHP. If the server you publish to does not support PHP, then
Nocan be selected and you’ll have to publish the entire site for navigational changes.
- Brand version (required): 3.2.x by default and should be left 3.2.x.
- Brand assets server URL (required): The framework uses centrally hosted assets at https://assets.iu.edu.
- Campus (required): Select your campus from the drop-down.
- Site Title (required): Enter your site’s title. Be sure to add full name. For example, VPCPF should be spelled out as Vice President for Capital Planning and Facilities. A
<span> </span>can be placed around parts of your title that you don’t want bolded. Long site titles can be separated into two lines with smaller text above the main title by putting the first section of the title in<span class="small"> </span>. - Theme (Secondary Color): Select your site’s theme which will be used as the secondary color to crimson and light gray. All theme colors are based on the IU web brand colors. Please use only these brand colors across your site.
- Primary Navigation Dropdown: The primary navigation can include a drop-down with the contents of that section.
- Include Campus Emergency Banner: For campus level sites, IU-Notify banners can be displayed.
- Social Media: Enter the usernames for your social media accounts if you would like social icons to appear in the belt just above the site’s footer.
Any time a change is made to the Settings block, the whole site will need to be republished.
2. Transports
On the WCMS Manager Tools site, transports can be updated under Manage Transports. Expand your site and click on the pencil icon to enter your SFTP information:
- Sitehost account
- Server directory
- Passphrase
For more information about Transports and Destinations, visit the WCMS KB document.
3. Publish to test
It’s time to make sure everything is set up correctly and publish the site to Sitehost Test, the test server. Go to your site in the WCMS and publish the base folder / to test.
Additional files
Note: If you are using Sitehost/Sitehost Test, as part of the creation of your framework copy, we will install additional files on your account.
- Sitehost Test
- web/robots.txt (this is used to prevent your test site from being indexed by search engines)
- web/.htaccess (this redirects tilde URLs to the Webtest virtual host and sets PHP AddHandler for .html file extensions)
- web/.user.ini (sets PHP include paths)
- Sitehost
- crontab (this generates web/sitemap.xml)
- web/.htaccess (this redirects tilde URLs to the production virtual host and sets PHP AddHandler for .html file extensions)
- web/.user.ini (sets PHP include paths)
If you need to run this script on your own, navigate to the web directory of your account and run /groups/iuframe/bin/setup_framework and follow the prompts. If applicable, be sure to use your virtual host URL for production, not the default Sitehost URL.