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evancooperman-rp
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May 5, 2021

AEM CIF + Magento on Publish

  • May 5, 2021
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Hi everyone,

I'm struggling a bit to get my publish instance working properly with AEM + CIF (1.10.0) + Venia + Magento.  Everything works properly in author - I can view products, add to cart, and complete checkout.  My commerce config path is set as /api/graphql.

The problem is that in publish, I'm getting a 403 error when it attempts to hit the graphql endpoint:

http://localhost:4503/api/graphql

I have set up the COMMERCE_ENDPOINT environment variable and this is working as expected in author.

I checked the CSRF configuration and by default it only has the /graphql endpoint listed as ignoring CSRF, so I'm assuming that the publish endpoint cannot just be /api/graphql.  I tried adding /api/graphql to the CSRF config just for fun, but that didn't fix it. 

So my question is, in order for publish to work, do I have to set up a proxy and update my config in author (and then publish it) using that URL instead?  I actually tried changing the URL to hit Magento directly, but of course I get a CORS error, so there obviously needs to be a proxy somewhere...I just thought AEM could handle it internally for publish like it does for author.  Does anyone know if I absolutely need to set up a proxy for publish?  Even if I do use a proxy, I'm assuming I would want to use the dispatcher as my proxy so that I don't run into the CORS issue there too, and to avoid a second proxy, right?

I've tried scouring the docs but they all speak primarily to author, with almost nothing at all for how the publish setup differs.  The only thing I see is the following, which seems to indicate that AEM publish should function as it's own proxy the same way author does:

 

Example Mac OSX:

export COMMERCE_ENDPOINT=https://demo.magentosite.cloud/graphql
Example Windows:
set COMMERCE_ENDPOINT=https://demo.magentosite.cloud/graphql
This variable is used by AEM to connect to your commerce system. Also, the CIF add-on includes a local reverse proxy make the Commerce GraphQL endpoint available locally. This is used by the CIF authoring tools (product console and pickers) and for the CIF client-side components doing direct GraphQL calls.
 

Thanks in advance!

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moek18753296
moek18753296
Level 2
May 10, 2021

Are you logging in on the publisher first?  If not, I would check the Sling Authentication Service in the OSGi console is set to allow Anonymous access. https://experienceleaguecommunities.adobe.com/t5/adobe-experience-manager/aem-sites-locked-for-anonymous-users/td-p/260595

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    evancooperman-rpAuthor
    Level 3
    May 12, 2021
    Great thought, and for a minute I thought you were on to something! Unfortunately my Sling Authentication Service is already allowing anonymous access to the repo. I also tested again after logging in as admin, but getting the same issue still anyway.
      shelly-goel
      Adobe Employee
      shelly-goelAdobe Employee
      Adobe Employee
      May 12, 2021

      @evancooperman-rp  I hope you've activated your /conf/venia cloud configurations

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        evancooperman-rpAuthor
        Level 3
        May 12, 2021
        I did activate them, the URL it's attempting to hit in publish is the same as in author (but port 4503), but I'm getting the 403 error.
          shelly-goel
          Adobe Employee
          shelly-goelAdobe Employee
          Adobe Employee
          June 6, 2021

          @evancooperman-rp  Yes the graphql endpoint should be /api/graphql in publish as well. Where do you get 403?

          Is your issue resolved?

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            Aryan12345
            Level 3
            February 23, 2022

            Same issue here as well (in 2022 :))

             

            Did you find any solution?

             

            This is the summary of my issue

             

            The /api/graphql is throwing 403 errors which means no frontend commerce operation is happening on the storefront.
             
            I tried adding the /api/graphql to the CSRF filter's exclude list and even removed the POST method from there.
             

             

             
            After this I still 403 on GET request of /api/graphql and the following on POST request.
             

             

             
            I am I missing some setting?
             
            Note: on the sling servlet resolver config, I have added the /api/graphql but there is no change.
             

             

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              evancooperman-rpAuthor
              Level 3
              February 24, 2022

              I updated my local dispatcher tools to have an ENVIRONMENT_LOCAL option, and then use that in conjunction with an addition I made to our vhost file like this:

              <IfDefine ENVIRONMENT_LOCAL>
                  ProxyErrorOverride off
                  ProxyPass         /api/graphql http://host.docker.internal:3001
                  ProxyPassReverse  /api/graphql http://host.docker.internal:3001
              </IfDefine>

               so I just use the dispatcher as a proxy.  Since the dispatcher starts in a VM, I believe you also need a local npx proxy in order to forward traffic along to Adobe I/O like this:

              npx local-cors-proxy --proxyUrl https://adobeioruntime.net/api/v1/web/xxxx/graphql-reference/dispatcher --port 3001 --proxyPartial ""

              Hope that helps!

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                evancooperman-rpAuthor
                Level 3
                April 4, 2022

                This is for the sdk?  Adding this in global.vars in dispatcher fixed a problem on localhost:4503? I tried this and it did not work.

                 

                I get Forbidden for localhost:4503/api/graphql and 404 for localhost:8080/api/graphql

                 

                What do you mean that your vhost was referring to a COMMERCE variable?  in what way?

                 

                Thanks

                Yonit


                No you need to add a proxy in your dispatcher that does this.  Look at the code he posted above, that is included in the CIF:

                 

                # CQ-4287185: Allow access to magento reverse-proxy endpoint
                <IfDefine COMMERCE>
                    SSLProxyEngine on
                    <LocationMatch "/api/graphql">
                        ProxyPass        ${COMMERCE_ENDPOINT}
                        ProxyPassReverse ${COMMERCE_ENDPOINT}
                        RewriteEngine Off
                    </LocationMatch>
                </IfDefine>

                 

                you'll need to make sure the COMMERCE variable is set to true, and then it should enable your proxy within the dispatcher, assuming you have the latest version of the dispatcher code (you might have to pull the latest and merge it into your codebase if you have an older version).  Whatever port you're running the dispatcher, on, you should be able to hit /api/graphql and it should forward these requests, via dispatcher proxy, to the commerce system.

                 

                See https://github.com/adobe/aem-project-archetype/blob/d1d62d464e9bbf28d2379d043aed5f90adc48aab/src/main/archetype/dispatcher.cloud/src/conf.d/dispatcher_vhost.conf for the file in the archetype that has the proxy configuration in it.

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