[LON-CAPA-cvs] cvs: loncom /html/adm/help/tex Domain_Configuration_Login_Page.tex

[raeburn]

raeburn		Thu Mar 26 16:31:01 2015 EDT

  Modified files:              
    /loncom/html/adm/help/tex	Domain_Configuration_Login_Page.tex 
  Log:
  - Document support for upload of custom HTML in head portion of log-in page.
  
  
Index: loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Login_Page.tex
diff -u loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Login_Page.tex:1.6 loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Login_Page.tex:1.7
--- loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Login_Page.tex:1.6	Thu Jun 26 15:07:10 2014
+++ loncom/html/adm/help/tex/Domain_Configuration_Login_Page.tex	Thu Mar 26 16:31:01 2015
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 \label{Domain_Configuration_Login_Page}
 If your domain has more than one server you have the option to configure whether 
-any of the servers will redirect to another server whenever the log-in page is requested.  This can be useful if you maintain a portal or "Load Balancer" server which 
+any of the servers will redirect to another server whenever the log-in page is requested.  This can be useful if you maintain a portal or ``Load Balancer'' server which 
 forms your institution's gateway to LON-CAPA. You can specify the path to which 
 the user should be redirected, and also whether log-in page requests from specific
 IP addresses should be exempt from the redirection.  The exemption is useful 
@@ -65,3 +65,13 @@
 and private keys which will be entered in the domain configuration form.  If you have more
 than one server in your domain, you should request ``global'' keys, as the same keys will be
 used by the Contact Helpdesk ReCAPTCHA on all servers in your domain.
+
+\hfill{}
+
+The head portion of the log-in page may contain custom mark up (e.g., a script block containing
+javascript for page analytics) in a file which will be uploaded and published public.
+Different custom markup may be uploaded for each server in a domain, and a comma separated list
+of IP addresses may be specified for which the custom markup will not not be included in the page, 
+when the request for the log-in page originates from one of those addresses. A use case for the
+exempt IP addresses is where robotic requests for the log-in page and made from a monitoring
+machine, used to detect when a LON-CAPA server is not working correctly.