Site authentication for your visitors when using AEM Authoring

aem.live supports token-based authentication. When using AEM authoring as your content source, site authentication is usually applied to both the preview and publish sites, but can also be configured to only protect either site individually.

NOTE: If you choose to activate site authentication, you must configure it in your AEM authoring environments as well

Requirements

To configure site authentication for use with content authoring, you must first complete the following tasks:

• This document assumes that you have already created a site for your project based on the Getting Started – Universal Editor Developer Tutorial.
• You must have already enabled the repoless feature for your project.

Configure Site Authentication

You must first configure site authentication for your site. While doing this, take note of the following information:

• The ID of the technical account
• Your site authentication token

These items are required to complete the configuration of site authentication for your AEM authoring environment.

Configure Authoring Environment

Once site authentication is configured, you can enable it in your AEM authoring environment.

1. Sign into the AEM author instance and go to Tools → Cloud Services → Edge Delivery Services Configuration and select the configuration that was automatically created for your site and tap or click Properties in the tool bar.
2. In the Edge Delivery Services Configuration window, select the Authentication tab, provide the Site Authentication Token, which you copied previously.
   
3. Verify that the The technical account ID field matches the one you copied previously.
   • This field is read-only and predefined.
   • The technical account is the same for all sites on a single AEM author environment.
4. Tap or click Save & Close.