Configure Sites Settings

Allow Sites to Be Created

After you sign in to the Oracle Content Management web application as a service administrator, click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
Next to Allow sites to be created, select Enabled to allow your service users to create sites. When you enable the ability to create sites, you allow all users to create templates and sites.
If you disable site creation, users can still see and work with templates and other folders in the hierarchy. Users can also still work with an existing site if the site is shared with them. They can view, edit, and manage the site, depending on their role.

When you enable sites functionality, users have the ability to publish any content they have access to, including confidential information. You might want to limit your users to creating only secured sites, so that users have to sign in before they can see the site content. For even more security, you can limit site creation to administrators.

See Creating and Managing Sites in Building Sites with Oracle Content Management.

Enable Governance for Sites

After you sign in to the Oracle Content Management web application as a service administrator, click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
Next to Enable governance for sites, select Enabled to simplify and accelerate site delivery for business users, who are not site administrators, while giving site administrators an easy way to control and track sites from a centralized location.
With Governance enabled:
- Developers can populate a template catalog with a set of site templates for the needs of different lines of business. They can apply policies regarding the type of security new sites must adhere to as well as whether new sites require approval.
- Business users have the ability to rapidly request new sites with required approvals and automated provisioning,
- Site administrators can manage all sites from one place regardless of who created and deployed the site. They can monitor site status and change status for any deployed site.
See Understand Site Governance in Building Sites with Oracle Content Management.

Set Minimum Security for Online Sites

After you sign in to the Oracle Content Management web application as a service administrator, click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
Next to Minimum security for online sites, choose one of the following options from the drop-down list:
- Specific service users—Only selected service users (the default setting)
  Only authenticated users who are explicitly selected as members can access the published site. You can further limit the selected users to only Oracle Content Management users.
- Specific cloud users—Only selected cloud users
- Service users—All service users
  Only authenticated service users, standard users, or enterprise users can access secure sites. This excludes authenticated visitors.
- Cloud users—All cloud users who can sign in to your domain.
- Everyone—Anyone without signing in
For information about specifying who can access public sites, see Changing Site Security in Building Sites with Oracle Content Management.

Allow Sharing of Sites and Themes

After you sign in to the Oracle Content Management web application as a service administrator, click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
Next to Allow sharing of sites and themes from UI, select Enabled to allow users to share sites and themes with other Oracle Content Management users.
If you disable sharing, users can still create and publish themes and sites. Users with the manager role for the theme or site (the owner or an administrator) can edit or publish the theme or site.

If you disable sharing, users won't be able to share sites and themes through the user interface. It’s still possible to implement sharing of theme and site folders using the Oracle Cloud REST API for Content Management.

Limit Site, Template, or Component Creation to Site Administrators

After you sign in to the Oracle Content Management web application as a service administrator, click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
Next to Only site administrators can create sites, select Enabled to restrict the ability to create sites to users with the site administrator application role.
Next to Only site administrators can create templates, select Enabled to restrict the ability to create templates to users with the site administrator application role.
Next to Only site administrators can create components, select Enabled to restrict the ability to create components to users with the site administrator application role.

Add Analytics Tracking Code to Sites

After you sign in to the Oracle Content Management web application as a service administrator, click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
Optionally, add JavaScript tracking code to sites for web analytics tracking, making it easier to integrate with external analytics providers like Google, Adobe, or Oracle Infinity. Adding a snippet here will propagate it to all new sites and pages. You can also add the snippet to directly to individual sites or pages or customize the propagated snippet as necessary.
Click Edit, then add a web analytics tracking snippet like the following one for Google Analytics:
```

<script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=UA-85172963-3"></script>
<script>
window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || O:
function gtag0{dataLayer.push(arguments);}
gtag('js', new Date0;

gtag('config', 'UA-85172963-3'):
</script>
```
Click Done, and then click Save.

The tracking snippet here will be available in a site's settings, but a site manager must enable the snippet on the site, publish the change, and, if necessary, bring the site online before analytics are collected for that site. Site managers can also customize the snippet in the site settings or page settings.

After the site manager publishes the site and brings it online, you can view the tracked analytics data on the vendor’s site, such as Google Analytics. If you used a snippet for Oracle Infinity analytics tracking, go to the Oracle Infinity home page and click Analytics to view the data and select or create reports.

Set Custom Cache Control Headers for Compiled Sites

If your company uses compiled sites, you can set custom cache control headers that will be used by default for any compiled sites created on your instance.

By default, compiled sites are cached on a user's browser for 300 seconds (5 minutes). However, you can change this default for your instance through the administrative settings. Site developers can also change the settings for a specific site in the site properties.

To change the default cache settings for compiled sites, perform the following steps:

After you sign in to the Oracle Content Management web application as a service administrator, click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
To change the default cache settings for compiled sites, edit the values shown below in bold. Values are in seconds.
```
Cache-Control: max-age=300
Edge-Control: !no-store,max-age=1800,downstream-ttl=1800
```
- Cache-Control determines how long a page is cached on a user's browser. The default is 300 seconds (5 minutes).
- Edge-Control is an Akamai-specific setting. If your instance doesn't use Akamai, this setting has no effect.
  - !no-store indicates that this setting should override the corresponding Akamai caching configuration for the property.
  - max-age determines how long Akamai should cache this page. The default is 1800 seconds (30 minutes). During that time, Akamai will fulfill requests for the page without requesting the page from Oracle Content Management.
  - downstream-ttl tells Akamai to send a “Cache-Control: max-age” header with its response to client browsers, instructing those browsers to cache the page for the allotted time. The default is 1800 seconds (30 minutes).
After changing the settings, click Save.

To return to the default values, click Show defaults, and then click Save.

Set a Compilation Endpoint URL

If you're using a Site Compilation Service, you need to register the compilation endpoint URL with Oracle Content Management so that sites can be compiled when they're published.

For details on setting up the Site Compilation Service, see Set Up a Site Compilation Service in Integrating and Extending Oracle Content Management.

After you sign in to the Oracle Content Management web application as a service administrator, click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
In the Compilation Endpoint URL box, enter the fully-qualified URL you want to be registered with the server, then click Test to validate the endpoint.

Automatically Handle Expired Sites

If site governance is enabled, you can have expired sites automatically taken offline and even deleted.

After you sign in to the Oracle Content Management web application as a service administrator, click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
Under Site Expiration, if you want sites to be taken offline automatically when they expire, enable Automatically take expired sites offline.
If you also want expired sites to be deleted, enable Automatically delete expired sites, and enter the number of days you want to wait before they're deleted.
You can see the list of deleted sites by clicking Sites in the navigation menu, then selecting Trash from the Sites menu.

See Understand Site Governance in Building Sites with Oracle Content Management.

Install Default Site Templates

After you sign in to the Oracle Content Management web application as a service administrator, click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
If you want to install a set of default site templates to help your users get started building their own sites, click Install default site templates.
This option installs the templates shipped with Oracle Content Management. If this is the first time you have installed the templates, new folders are created for the template, its associated theme, and any custom components included in the template. If these templates were installed previously, installing them again will overwrite the associated template, theme, and custom component files, including any sharing settings you have set. After you install the templates, share the templates with the intended users.

Until you share a template, it can’t be used by anyone else. When you share a template with users for the first time, the associated theme and any associated custom components are automatically shared with the identified users, who are given the Downloader role for the theme and components to ensure that they are available if the users create sites from the template. Subsequent changes in the template to the role for one or more users do not update the sharing information for the associated theme or custom components.

Enable Custom Sign-In

Oracle Content Management provides a custom sign-in feature that enables you to use a site page as a custom sign-in page. Once configured, this will become the sign-in page for Oracle Content Management and all secure sites.

Note:

The custom sign-in feature is available only in Oracle Content Management instances that are running on Gen 2 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) natively (that is, using the Oracle Cloud Console to manage service instances).
If your instance uses Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS), IDCS comes with an embedded sign-in page. IDCS provides a way of customizing the sign-in page. However, if you need to personalize the look and feel of the sign-in page beyond what the branding feature supports, IDCS provides an Authentication API that enables you to develop your own customized sign-in page.

The starter template comes with a sample sign-in page with a custom sign-in component to help you get started.
Starter template custom sign-in page

Steps to Use Custom Sign-In

Here’s an overview of what you need to do:

Create a public site from the starter template.
Use Site Builder to edit the site’s sign-in page.
Publish the custom sign-in site and bring it online.
If you've configured a friendly management domain, and you want your custom sign-in site to use the same domain, you must also have this domain set as an instance-level site vanity domain.
Enable custom sign-in in the administrative user interface (described below).

Note:

When using a custom sign-in site with a Friendly Management Domain, you may use the original or short-path option with your instance-level site vanity domain. However, if you switch between original and short-paths you must reset the custom sign-in page and then re-enable it. This step is required for the authentication redirection process to use the correct site paths.

Enable Custom Sign-In

After your site is published and online, you need to enable it for custom sign-in.

If you’re not already signed in as a user that has access to the System administration, sign in to Oracle Content Management as an administrator.
Click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
Under Custom Sign In, click Enabled, select the site and page you created for custom login, and then click Save.

Important:
Make sure you select the correct page. If you sign out or your session ends, you won’t be able to sign in directly to Oracle Content Management again. You’ll need to sign in to Oracle Cloud, and then navigate to your Oracle Content Management instance. Then you can go back to the Sites and Assets page and correct the issue.

Once you configure the custom sign-in page, the associated site can’t be taken offline or unpublished.

You’ll probably want to inform your users that they’ll see a new sign-in page, so they don’t worry that it’s a phishing scheme or something similar.

Reset Custom Sign-In

You can reset the sign-in page to the one that comes out-of-the-box in the following ways:

From Oracle Content Management:
1. If you’re not already signed in as a user that has access to the System administration, sign in to Oracle Content Management as an administrator.
2. Click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
3. In the System menu, click Sites.
4. Under Custom Sign-In, click Disabled, and then click Save.
If you can’t sign in to Oracle Content Management because the sign-in page was configured incorrectly, you can reset the sign-in page in one of two ways:
- If you sign in to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) using single sign-on (SSO), follow these steps to reset the sign-in page:
  1. Sign in to Oracle Cloud as a Service Administrator user (a user that has access to the System administration in Oracle Content Management).
  2. In the Oracle Cloud Console, click to open the navigation menu, expand Developer Services, then, under Content Management, click Instances. This opens the Content Management Instances page.
  3. In the Compartment menu on the left, select the compartment for your Oracle Content Management instance.
  4. Click your service instance to open it.
  5. Click Open Instance. This opens your Oracle Content Management instance without the need to sign in.
  6. Click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
  7. In the System menu, click Sites.
  8. Under Custom Sign-In, click Disabled, and then click Save.
If you don’t sign in to OCI using SSO, open a support ticket with Oracle Support to reset the sign-in page.

Configure Vanity Domains

You can set up vanity domains to access sites created with Oracle Content Management. Before you can configure vanity domains and select a default in Oracle Content Management, you must perform some preliminary steps.

To configure instance-level vanity domains and set a default:

If you’re not already signed in as a user that has access to the System administration, sign in to Oracle Content Management as an administrator.
Click System in the Administration area of the navigation menu.
In the System menu, click Sites.
Under Vanity Domain Configuration, click Manage Vanity Domains.
In the Manage Vanity Domains dialog, enter the domain (for example, example.com). To register another domain, click Add Domain. When you're done, click Save.
If you want sites created in Oracle Content Management to use a default domain, select it in the drop-down list.
If you want short URL paths (for example, www.myexample.com/MySiteName) to be displayed in your sites rather than the full paths (for example, your-instance.cec.oraclecorp.com:8080/site/authsite/MySiteName), select Enabled. If you select to use short paths, you'll need to configure additional CDN settings.
When you're done, click Save.

Site administrators can override the default vanity domain for a site.