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This article is based on the blog post here of Danny Baggs. Danny has a strong developer based background and is working for Open Text.

Overview

The way the LiveServer Delivery Server is set up for a development environment usually is as a standalone application without having a front controlling web server. Although this is working for development purposes it doesn’t work within a live environment with several thousand users firing off HTTP requests every hour or minute or even second.
This post discusses the best practice of deploying the Open Text Delivery Server in an optimal way alongside a front controlling web server. This article provides a high-level overview of what to set up and how the necessary components work together. Depending on feedback I may post further posts on the details of each step.

After reading this article you will know

• How to set up your LiveServer environment properly to ensure it is scalable, reliable and offers high performance
• Which tools you can use to create dynamic functionality
• How you can tweak your LiveServer to gain some SEO enhancements

How does Delivery Server work and what should you not do

The Open Text Delivery Server is a dynamic web server component that has strengths in coarse grained personalization and dynamic behaviour as well as system integration. All you need to know is where to get your hands on and what to do and what you better should not do.
The Open Text Delivery Server is housed within a Servlet Container. A Servlet Container is not the ideal location from which to serve static content. It handles requests in a way that limits the amount of concurrent requests. This can lead to severe performance issues.
There are ways to mitigate this but it needs quite a lot of Java experience and is still not recommended. Unless you wish to maintain a level of access control over the static content let’s put it simply like this:
Don’t run the Deliver Server as a standalone web server.

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