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Issue in setting up Universal Editor local service

  • February 26, 2024
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I am following this article to setup the local universal editor - https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/universal-editor/developing/local-dev.html?lang=en# but it's not working for me.

 

Can you please let me know what steps I could be missing if anyone has it working in their local?

 

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Narendra

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    Best answer by maximilianvoss

    Yep, you are right. Was able to see the latest universal-editor-cors library. So, how to use the Universal Editor locally then?

     


    Please see: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/implementing/developing/universal-editor/architecture.html?lang=en#building-blocks

     

     

    Universal Editor consists of two elements: UI & Service.

    The Universal Editor UI is always hosted on https://experience.adobe.com or under AEM domain.

    The Universal Editor Service - the part which is persisting changes to your AEM backend - is either centrally hosted by Adobe at https://universal-editor-service.experiencecloud.live or can be self-hosted by you. Use cases for self-hosting are local development or internal restrictions which prevent direct access to the AEM instance from the Internet.

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    kautuk_sahni
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    kautuk_sahniCommunity Manager
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    February 28, 2024

    @narendragandhi can you help us explain what issue are you facing? 

     

    Setting up the local Universal Editor in AEM involves several steps:

    Prerequisites:

    Steps:

    1. Create a Certificate:

      • Option 1: Use OpenSSL to generate a self-signed certificate for development purposes only. 
        openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout key.pem -out certificate.pem -days 365 -subj "/C=US/ST=YourState/L=YourCity/O=YourOrganization/CN=localhost"
      • Option 2: Alternatively, for a more secure development environment, use a temporary certificate authority like mkcert: https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

    2. Configure the Universal Editor Service:

      • Edit the config.json file located in the Universal Editor Service installation directory.
      • Update the following properties:
        • server.port: Set the port on which the service will run (default: 8000).
        • https.enabled: Set to true to enable HTTPS.
        • https.keyStore: Path to your self-signed certificate keystore file (e.g., key.pem).
        • https.keyStorePassword: Password for the keystore file (leave blank if using OpenSSL).

    3. Run the Universal Editor Service:

      • Open a terminal and navigate to the Universal Editor Service installation directory.
      • Run the command ./universal-editor-service to start the service.

    4. Instrument your AEM page:

    5. Access the Local Universal Editor:

      • Open your browser and navigate to https://localhost:8000/.
      • If using a self-signed certificate: Accept the security warning as it's not trusted by default browsers. (For development only)
      • If using a temporary certificate authority like mkcert: You should be able to access the editor without any warnings.
      • You should now be able to edit your AEM page using the local Universal Editor Service.
    Kautuk Sahni
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    PoorvaJa
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    February 28, 2024

    Followed your steps @kautuk_sahni. The local universal editor is still not working, getting a 404, when I hit the local host https://localhost:8000/

     

    Here is what I did -
    1. Followed the steps as documented here to setup the local Universal editor Service.

    2. Added an additional config.json, considering the installation directory didn't have one. Still no luck!
    3. Note: Downloaded the Universal editor service universal-editor-service.cjs from https://experience.adobe.com/#/downloads/content/software-distribution/en/aemcloud.html

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      vishal22
      May 23, 2024

      Oh, perfect. So it was working after all. I was expecting to see a UI for the local Universal Editor Service as well.


      Hi @poorvaja @narendragandhi ,
      So, you means we are not able to see universal editor ui on local.
      For your reference i have followed all steps mentioned in documentation but i am not able to instrument page for

      <meta name="urn:adobe:aue:config:service" content="https://localhost:8000">

       I am able to view page in AEM

       


      and not able to open that in universal editor, universal editor service is running on local.

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        SatyanarayanaTh
        May 23, 2024

        For react Apps to enable AUE on the pages:

        add the fallowing dependency in package.json  dependency section 

        "@adobe/universal-editor-cors": "^2.2.16",

        then add the fallowing import in index.js 

        import '@adobe/universal-editor-cors';

        then instrumentalise the page as mentioned the Here 

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