Specifying Environment Properties

When replicating your site from one location to another, you may want to preserve certain settings from one server and not replicate them to the next server. These settings are called environment properties.

If, for example, you want to specify a unique caching value on one server (a contribution site) and not the next server (a customer site), you would specify that the max-age property be an environment property. As a result, it is not replicated to the next server.

You specify environment properties in Designer, and you can override those values in Replicator.

To specify environment properties, perform these tasks:

1. With your site open in Designer, click File then Site, then select Advanced then Define Environment Properties.

   This opens the Define Environment Properties dialog (see Define Environment Properties Dialog).

2. Check the box beside the property to be an environment property (and therefore not replicated).

3. Clear the box beside the property to be treated normally and therefore replicated to the next location (these properties are called application properties).

4. Click OK.

You can also override environment properties during replication (see Overriding Environment Properties).