Creating a CMS Tour
Article Topics: CMS Tour
What is a Tour?
On your Tour, visitors can view previews of the content within your Member Area. Tours can be customized separately from your Member Area, providing you with sufficient flexibility to promote your content in various ways, such as highlighting seasonal events or catering to a specific audience.
Adding a CMS Tour
1) Click the Content Management tab in the NATS Admin, click "Tours" and select “Add New.”
2) Add a Tour Name, select a base Theme such as Helpful Hands, which is a great starting point for a modern pay site, and enter a URL for the tour, one that matches a tour already configured in the NATS Site's Admin.
3) Once the CMS Tour has been created, you'll be on the Setup Tab, where you can set details for the tour, such as the Server Location and Document Root. Configuring these settings will help provide you with server configuration instructions later in the setup process.
All required fields will be denoted with a red "Details Missing Tag."
Server Location - The server from which the Tour app will be served.
Remote - External Server.
URL - The full URL for the Tour.
Document Root - The file path on the server to the document root for the Member Area.
API Domain - The Linkdomain or CDN domain used for API calls. Leave blank to use your NATS domain.
CMS Tours vs NATS Tours: The Tours that you create for your CMS are separate from the Tours that you have on your NATS Site. Tours in the CMS can be configured using the Block Builder and are connected to a Member Area within your NATS install. Tours available in the Site Admin are not the same.
4) Navigate to the General tab to view the Tour Details. Select the "Update" button inside the "Default Signup Details" section to connect a CMS Tour to one of your NATS Tours in the Sites Admin.
The NATS Tour will be used for Member Sign-Up and NATS Code purposes.
5) Return to the Server Setup tab, where you'll be presented with server configuration details specific to your Tour.
It is at this point that you will want to contact your server host to configure the VirtualHost configuration with the sample provided in the Sample Apache Virtualhost Config section.
Additionally, you will want to ensure your host adds the following line to the configuration:
Where <areaid> is the unique ID of the Member Area, which can be found on the General tab.
Example:
6) Once you have your Virtualhost configured, you will need to configure the Login Block for the tour.
This is where members log in to the Member Area that you select in the Login Block, as well as the page visitors are sent to when attempting to access a Member's Area without being logged in.
7) Navigate to the Theme tab, then select the Login page.
8) Select the Login Block and click Configure.
9) Navigate to the Settings tab to configure where the user will log in.
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