Go live and post launch
When you've finished reviewing each page on your site, and you've completed any internal content governance and approval processes, your Fresco site can be published.
To do this, you need to confirm the following with the Migration Team:
- You're happy for your Fresco site to go live, and that you're ready to deactivate your Mosaic site.
- You have checked if you share any content with any other Mosaic sites. If your site is sharing content to other pages, this content will disappear when your Mosaic site is deactivated.
- To find out if your Mosaic site is sharing content to other sites visit the Sharing and copying content page. View shared content owner's information
- Specify a Fresco go-live date.
Switchover timeframe
Fresco go-lives/switchovers are done once a week, usually on a Wednesday. However, you can nominate a specific week if you'd prefer - please contact the Migration Team (mosaicmigrationsupport@it.ox.ac.uk).
During the switchover, the Migration Team will check that your Fresco site is working properly and then notify you when it's complete.
After switchover
Once your Fresco site is live, you'll need to toggle on ‘enable SEO Allow search engines to index the site’, and save the configuration. This means your site can be found on search engines, like Google.
To do this: Access your site's Administer Settings, and then under System click on Site launch. From this page you can toggle on and off SEO and Site access settings.
After switchover, visitors to your old Mosaic site will be automatically be redirected to your new Fresco site. This is automatic redirect is temporary for approximately 4 months, and after this point your old Mosaic site won't be accessible.
If you wish, you can also delete the Migration Team's access to this site at this point.
Warning
Please note If you set your site settings > Site Launch > Site Access > "Make my site live" to on without informing the Migration team then this will mean that you now have two sites live with the same content at the same time. This can have negative implications for your sites SEO ranking as the search engines will "downgrade" your site if they detect 2 instances of your site. To avoid this please follow the process above and make sure to contact the Migration team who can arrange for the site redirects to be put in place and can ensure that old Mosaic site is marked for decommissioning as part of the weekly go live.