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Luca_Moreau
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April 17, 2025
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How do you test Akamai configuration with AEMaaCS before DNS is live?

  • April 17, 2025
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I'm setting up Akamai for AEMaaCS using the sample vendor config with edge keys. Is there a way to test Akamai → Dispatcher → AEM routing without pointing the live DNS yet?

Best answer by SantoshSai

Hi @luca_moreau,

Can you try testing it by making curl requests directly to the AEM publish URL and passing the headers manually:

curl https://publish-<program>-<env>.adobeaemcloud.com \
-H "X-Forwarded-Host: yourdomain.com" \
-H "X-AEM-Edge-Key: <your-key>" \
-H "x-aem-debug: edge=true" -v

Also, ensure that your dispatcher’s virtual hosts are configured with yourdomain.com. You’ll only see a full round-trip via Akamai once DNS points to Akamai, but this curl method helps test the setup in isolation.

 

Hope that helps!

Regards,
Santosh

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SantoshSai
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SantoshSaiCommunity AdvisorAccepted solution
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April 17, 2025

Hi @luca_moreau,

Can you try testing it by making curl requests directly to the AEM publish URL and passing the headers manually:

curl https://publish-<program>-<env>.adobeaemcloud.com \
-H "X-Forwarded-Host: yourdomain.com" \
-H "X-AEM-Edge-Key: <your-key>" \
-H "x-aem-debug: edge=true" -v

Also, ensure that your dispatcher’s virtual hosts are configured with yourdomain.com. You’ll only see a full round-trip via Akamai once DNS points to Akamai, but this curl method helps test the setup in isolation.

 

Hope that helps!

Regards,
Santosh

Santosh Sai
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    RanjithR1
    April 21, 2025

    Hi @santoshsai 

    How can we validate this curl command is behaving as expected? Are we looking for 200 status?

    And in dispatcher, I have used this ' 

    DispatcherUseForwardedHost ${FORWARDED_HOST_SETTING} '  in dispatcher_vhost.conf

    And declared this FORWARDED_HOST_SETTING variable in global.vars as On.
    For setting the X-Forwarded-Host, is this the only configuration we need to do, or is there anything other than this?
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