Optimize Your AEM Website with Performance Troubleshooting Tips

optimize your AEM website with performance troubleshooting tips

During the initial development phase of a website, not much attention is given to the performance of a website i.e. how the website will respond to millions of requests. Performance means the time your website takes to respond to visitors’ requests. In the later stages of implementation you need to optimize the website to maximize … Read more

Workflow in AEM – Beginners’ Journey to Create a Workflow

Workflow in AEM

In this blog, we will take a beginner’s journey on how to create a workflow in AEM, a launcher and custom steps involved in it. Let us begin by understanding workflows. What is a workflow in AEM? In AEM, a workflow is a well-defined series of steps that allows users to automate the activities in … Read more

AEM Forms – What you need to know

AEM Forms

Overview AEM has provided AEM Forms tool in AEM 6 that simplify creation and management of complicated forms and form fragments. This tool ease the creation of interactive adaptive forms and authoring is similar to authoring components in pages. AEM forms uses “Lazy loading” i.e. components are loaded only when they are required so forms … Read more

Is a Misconfigured “Page Not Found” Jeopardizing Your Website?

a man holding a broken cable to show a 404 page

Since Zap Technology Solutions (now Argil DX) released its free Security Scanner there have been a lot of folks scanning their websites. However, a few scans reported that sites were more vulnerable than they actually were. Something wrong with the security scanner? No. It is due to a simple misconfiguration of the website’s AEM/CQ5-based “Page Not Found” response. You see, the standard HTTP response code for a successfully served page is 200 (OK). However, typically a “Page Not Found” page has a response code of 404 (Page Not Found).

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Website, WCMS and Network Security

Website, WCMS, and Network Security

With the most recent news about Sony’s hacking (just the latest in what seems like weekly headlines of hacking), I wonder how do other companies address security? I know that Utility companies and government agencies are required by regulations to be more stringent about security, but what about other organizations? My experience has been that … Read more

AEM Dispatcher Setup for Linux

AEM Dispatcher Setup for Linux

Installing dispatcher for AEM in Apache Web-server in Linux may get little tricky, as documentation provided by Adobe on Installation of Dispatcher in Linux is not sufficient, and if we take it in analogy and try doing same way we do in Windows, then we face some issues locating the appropriate files. Prerequisites for Dispatcher … Read more

Adding Dynamic Options Values in AEM Dialog Dropdown Using $PATH

Dynamic Options values in AEM dialog dropdown Using $PATH

In this post I will explain a real project use-case where I need to populate a Dropdown in my component dialog with dynamic options values, but the conditions are – 1. These dynamic options values can only be fetched from the current resource or current page object. 2. Another condition is that this dropdown must … Read more

Maven Dependencies Version Issue in AEM

Maven Dependencies Version Issue in AEM

In this post, I will explain package version issues for AEM package dependencies. Here is the scenario where I got this issue: [av_heading heading=’Issue Description’ tag=’h2′ style=” size=” subheading_active=” subheading_size=’15’ padding=’10’ color=” custom_font=”][/av_heading] In one of my project, I had to create a tool for AEM that supports AEM5.6.1 and AEM6.x versions. For some dependencies, these … Read more