Creating a subdomain within a Site hosted on Cloud Manager

[krishnaselvarajMSFT]

Exampe Use Case :

For a site (www.info.foo.com) hosted on AEM CS, what is the best practice to create a new micro site (www.brand.adobe.com) that can re-use existing components?

Few additional questions:

1) Do we need to create a new Cloud Manager Program for each site or can one Cloud Program handle more than one site in it ? 

[Jörg_Hoh · Accepted solution]

This question is totally independent of AEM as a Cloud Service, the same approach should be applied when using a different AEM version as well.

The biggest concern here is to find the right content architecture. You might not only reuse the same components (and their settings), but also you might reuse content. You might check a blog post I have written some time back: https://cqdump.joerghoh.de/2017/11/13/creating-the-content-architecture-with-aem/

Best practice is to plan a bit ahead, so you can place the content of subdomain1.mycorp.com next to www.mycorp.com in the content tree, for example:

/content/mycorp/www.mycorp.com/...

/content/mycorp/subdomain1.mycorp.com/...

Here the subdomains are clearly separated, and you still have the chance to host multiple brands. Don't forget language and potentially country hierarchies when designing your content architecture.

And from there it shouldn't be problematic to allow reuse of components and templates.

[Hemalatha]

Hi @krishnaselvarajMSFT ,

You can manage multi sites within an AEM Server and you can reuse the existing components. You need to define the Site Structure, Site Design (UX) and need to create dispatcher rules separately for the micro site.

Also need to jot down how the micro site differs from the actual site. Do you have any configuration settings specific to microsite. If so how you will manage.