Before creating a connection you need to install Content Provider on your local environment. |
To check configuration of your system with iLangl Cloud, you can create a new channel. Follow the steps described below to set up a new channel:
Choose a connector type (required field) from the drop-down menu to match your CMS type and version.
Further configuration will depend on the connector type you choose. You can find more information about configuration of the CMS specific connector in the Connectors page. |
'Internet connection'/'Local connection' (required field) - choose 'Local connection' button.
This article describes how to create and validate the Local connection. The article on Internet connection can be found here. |
You have two options to specify local connection:
Option 1: Specify local connection in the cloud channel
Option 2: Use connection alias that was specified in the 'Content Provider' configuration file
Our team developed the Content Provider to overcome the multitude of challenges posed by internet connection to a remote content data sources. Here is a short list of challenges tackled by Content Provider:
Reduced Complexity - When a remote connection is set up from the data source the process becomes complicated as users face firewall issues. They might need remote permissions, static IP required, and other permissions just to set up the connection.
Content Provider largely reduces the complexities involved in the remote connection process by switching to local connection approach.
Increased Speed - When the content increases in size working over an internet connection becomes cumbersome.
Content Providers interacts with content data sources via a batch of small requests. Each request that is sent over the internet has only a small delay. For instance, a good ping time takes only about 30 milli seconds. When the amount of content and number of requests increases the impact Content Provider has on the system performance is visible. The Speed of import and export operation is increased tremendously. The performance in an intranet connection scenario is very high as the ping time is less than 1 millisecond.
Improved Security - Security becomes an issue when access to the internal content data happens through an external connection.
Our Content Provider offers improved security to your data as it can be hosted at customer environment behind the firewall. It enables interaction with content data source directly through the intranet environment.