# Publication in Jigsaw

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This page describes how to setup an editable space under Jigsaw. Today most of the authoring tools allows you to use the PUT method of HTTP to publish a document on a web server.

In the following configuration, the editable URL will be `http://your-server-host/publications.`

The tutorial will go through the following steps:

1. Configuring a PUT indexer
2. Configuring the editable space

# Configuring a PUT indexer

NOTE: Since Jigsaw2.0beta3, there is a `put-indexer` already configured in the distribution.

First, read the indexer documentation. When you are more familiar with indexers you can go through the following steps:

1) Create the indexer, called it `put-indexer` for example. In this case the ContentTypeIndexer is the most appropriate indexer class to choose.
2) The `put-indexer` has three nodes: `content-types`, `directories` and `extensions`.

- `content-types` define some relations between mime types and resources. This is used when the PUT request has a `Content-Type` Header. If the `Content-Type` header is `text/html` then the resource called `text:html` will be the template to use for the new created resource. The template resource `text:html` must be a FileResource associated to an HTTPFrame with its `Putable` flag set to on and of course a `Content Type` set to text/html.
- `directories` is used to index files matching exactly a name, mainly used to index directories. In this configuration every subdirectories will be indexed as a DirectoryResource associated to an HTTPFrame with its `Putable` flag set to on.
- `extensions` is used to index files with a specific extension. For example, "html" is a FileResource with an HTTPFrame set to give the "text/html" content type to this file (`Putable` flag set to on).

NOTE: Don't forget to set all `Putable` flag to on (in associated HTTPFrame).

3) Save your configuration, your new `put-indexer` is ready.

# Configuring the editable space

We choose `publications` as our editable directory.

1) Create the directory `<instdir>/Jigsaw/Jigsaw/WWW/publications.`

2) Open a JigAdmin window (see JigAdmin documentation).

3) Create the `publications` resource. It should be created automatically by the `default` indexer, it should be a DirectoryResource associated to an HTTPFrame (but you can use a PassDirectory with an HTTPFrame).
4) Set the putable flag of the HTTPFrame associated to `publications` to on. Don't forget to commit your changes.
5) Set the `put-indexer` as the current indexer. Commit your changes.
6) Save your configuration, now you can PUT some new documents (and some new directories) in `http://your-server-host/publications/` , enjoy!

Jigsaw Team
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