Does the EDS server intentionally block direct access to nav.html and footer.html?

[josephambrose]

I am trying to access nav.html and footer.html directly from scripts, but I am consistently getting a 404 error. Is EDS intentionally blocking access to nav.html and footer.html?

However, I am able to access nav.plain.html and footer.plain.html without any issues. The problem is that plain HTML does not include data attributes, making styling more difficult.

Is there any way to directly retrieve the full header and footer HTML using URLs like:

https://<branch>--<repo>--<owner>.aem.page/nav.html
https://<branch>--<repo>--<owner>.aem.page/footer.html

Right now, both URLs return 404 errors. Let me know if there’s a workaround!

[arunpatidar · Accepted solution]

Hi @josephambrose 

It seems so. Please reach out to Adobe to get workaround or explain your use case.

https://discord.com/channels/1131492224371277874/1144495462255185971 

[Mohit_KBansal]

@josephambrose EDS does not use .html extn for pages. You can access below nav & footer via below urls

https://<branch>--<repo>--<owner>.aem.page/nav
https://<branch>--<repo>--<owner>.aem.page/footer

[kautuk_sahni]

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