Troubleshooting publishing
This section explains ways to resolve publishing problems.
- Publishing diagram
The following diagram shows the various stages of a publish action, from the moment a user pushes the Publish button to the moment the visitor sees the published content. - Publishing states diagram
You can see the status of a publish transaction in the Publishing Queue. A publish state indicates the stage in the publish transaction. The following diagram provides an overview of the publishing states. - Transport Packages
Depending on the nature of the publish (or unpublish) action, one or more Transport Packages are created on the Content Manager side. The Transport Packages that are sent to the Content Deployer can help you determine where a publish action went wrong. - Locating where publishing fails
A number of problems along the publishing pipeline can cause publishing to fail, slow down, or not produce the desired output. This section helps you zoom in on the location in the pipeline causing the problem and solve the problem. - Troubleshooting scaled-out publishing
This topic describes how the publishing pipeline may be scaled out, and the specific publishing issues that can arise as a result. - Checking the Transport Service and Content Deployer logs
Both the log files and the configuration files of the Transport Service and the Content Deployer can help you zoom in on publishing problems.