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00:06 hey everybody Joe workmen here and in
00:09 this video we're going to be doing a
00:10 quick behind-the-scenes tour of how easy
00:13 and total CMS work behind the scenes on
00:17 your server so actually in this video
00:19 we're not going to be going in rap
00:21 Weaver at all I'm going to be jumping
00:22 onto my server and we're going to be
00:24 looking at all the files on the server
00:26 that easy CMS uses to manage everything
00:30 so here we are i'm using transmit and
00:33 I've ftp into my web server and we'll
00:37 see that here is the top level of
00:39 currently the total CMS demo site and
00:43 what we'll notice here is that there is
00:45 a CMS data folder at the top level and
00:50 this is the folder that is created by
00:53 both easy CMS and total CMS now it's
00:57 important to point out that this same
00:59 exact file structure is used by both
01:01 CMS's we did this so that if you ever
01:04 wanted to upgrade from easy CMS to total
01:07 CMS all of your data will be
01:09 transferable and completely transparent
01:11 for that migration now another thing
01:15 you're going to want to make sure is if
01:16 you want to backup your CMS data you
01:18 want to make sure that you maintain this
01:20 folder and that you back it up and that
01:23 it is vital that you actually don't
01:24 delete this data from the server because
01:27 it does contain all of the data that
01:29 you've edited and added to your online
01:31 CMS so this folder is pretty important
01:36 now if we look at the contents here
01:38 we'll see that there is a number of
01:40 folders here and you'll notice that
01:42 these folders correspond to the actual
01:46 type of data that we're adding now for
01:50 easy CMS instances you'll notice that
01:52 you'll probably only have a text and an
01:55 image folder the rest of these folders
01:58 are used for total CMS specific features
02:00 such as depots feeds files galleries
02:04 videos and total CMS also supports full
02:08 backups and we'll go in that in a little
02:10 bit but let's jump into
02:13 to see basically how all that works if
02:15 you look at the text folder you'll see
02:17 that there are files here and there is a
02:19 file for each CMS ID that we've added to
02:23 our website if you look at the image
02:26 folder you'll notice that there are four
02:28 files for every single image ID in this
02:33 instance if we look at the banner image
02:35 that we created we have banner.jpg which
02:38 is going to be the full resolution image
02:40 we have banner CMS in this is a file
02:44 that contains the alt tag information
02:45 for our image and then we have banner
02:49 dash th and banner dash sq which are the
02:53 proportional and square thumbnails for
02:55 our image now if we look at some of the
02:58 other things such as video will notice
03:01 that here again just like text we have a
03:03 file for each video and that this
03:07 contains all the video information that
03:09 we need for the CMS to process and
03:11 display this video content now if we
03:14 were to look at the file folder will
03:16 notice that the file will contain the
03:18 actual CMS ID with the extension that
03:22 we've defined and remember that this
03:24 file would be every time will be
03:26 replaced every time the a new file is
03:29 added to the CMS for look at galleries
03:33 galleries look work a little bit
03:36 differently because galleries can
03:39 contain multiple items therefore when
03:43 you look at the gallery you'll notice
03:44 that we have sub folders for each
03:46 gallery ID so if we were to look at the
03:50 gallery instance will notice that we
03:52 then inside here contain four files for
03:55 every single image in that gallery and
03:59 those four files are the full resolution
04:01 image the alt tag and the two thumbnails
04:04 just as we have for normal images now if
04:09 we were to look at depot will notice
04:11 similar similarly to the gallery we have
04:14 a sub folder with the Depot ID and then
04:18 inside that Depot we have all of our
04:20 files that are associated with that
04:22 Depot
04:25 and lastly we have feeds and feed
04:27 similarly to galleries and depots also
04:29 have a subfolder and if we look inside
04:32 the feed folder on us that we have the
04:35 text content for every single post now
04:39 all the images related to a feed are
04:42 actually assigned to a gallery if we
04:46 were to look back at our gallery folder
04:47 you probably would have noticed this
04:49 thing called a feed dash total CMS and
04:53 this is an actual gallery that is
04:56 generated for that feed so when you
05:01 create a new feed in total CMS it
05:04 actually creates an Associated gallery
05:07 for that feed now lastly if we look at
05:11 the backups folder total CMS supports
05:14 full backups of all of your CMS content
05:17 and if we were to peruse through this
05:19 backups folder will notice that inside
05:21 the text folder we have a folder for
05:25 each of our CMS IDs and if we were to
05:28 look inside these folders will notice
05:31 that total CMS actually saves the last
05:34 ten edits for every single editable area
05:38 and these files are date and
05:40 time-stamped so this allows us to easily
05:43 revert back to a previous content that
05:47 we saved inside total CMS and this is
05:50 for more than just text we have the same
05:53 thing for images if we look at our
05:55 banner image we have date and time
05:58 stamps for the last ten images that were
06:00 saved for our banner image the same
06:04 thing for video and feeds and depots now
06:10 the last thing I want to review is you
06:12 probably seen this file here called CMS
06:14 dot log if we were to open up this file
06:17 you'll see that it contains a lot of
06:19 very useful information about when
06:22 content was edited when content was
06:25 deleted everything that was done within
06:27 total CMS is kept track of inside this
06:31 log file this is very useful for
06:35 debugging and seeing exactly what's
06:38 going on
06:38 on the website within the CMS so i hope
06:42 this video helped you out a little bit
06:44 right as we saw it's all behind the
06:46 scenes data um you don't need to know
06:48 this to use the CMS on a day-to-day
06:51 basis it's just an FYI so if you want to
06:54 peruse and you want to see what exactly
06:56 is inside this folder you know right now
07:00 the CMS that log file is very useful
07:02 right and the backups are awesome
07:05 they're really great feature now this
07:08 doesn't replace the ability to you know
07:11 maybe backup that CMS data folder on a
07:13 routine basis so if in case something
07:16 were to happen in your server you can
07:18 restore from a backup right but the CMS
07:22 data folder is important you don't want
07:25 to delete it from the server willy-nilly
07:26 right it is where all of our data is
07:29 stored for the CMS so I hope you use
07:33 this data I hope you are enjoying the
07:35 CMS I hope it makes your lives a little
07:38 bit easier and thanks for watching
07:40 everybody talk to you later bike
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