Pre-rendered delivery

You can pre-render a complete IBM® Web Content Manager site into HTML and save it to disk. The pre-rendered site can then be used as your live site and displayed to end users using either Web Content Manager or a web server. You deploy a pre-rendered site when you are not using any WebSphere® Portal features and your content is static and is only updated periodically.

Restrictions

• Site areas and content item names cannot contain characters that are considered invalid in file names by the operating system on which you are pre-rendering. For example, on a machine running Windows, these characters are invalid: / \ : * ? " < > |.
• The path to the content item, including the directory path to which you are pre-rendering (for example, site area/content) cannot exceed the operating system's maximum path length:
  • Windows: 255 characters
  • AIX® IBM i Linux Solaris z/OS®: 1024 characters

• The Search component cannot be used in pre-rendered sites.

• The Page navigation component cannot be used in pre-rendered sites.

• Personalization elements can only be pre-rendered if the personalization rule is configured for anonymous access.

Site security

Item security for different users set in an Web Content Manager environment is not transferred to pre-rendered sites. The security for the entire pre-rendered site is based on the connect.moduleconfig.cacher.rendereruser property as specified in the WCM WCMConfigService service using the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console.