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AEM DISPATCHER STATFILE UNDERSTANDING & CACHE INVALIDATION:- AEM Developers, Infrastructure Engineers regularly come across a challenge on decoding the statfile and using it efficiently especially statfile becomes highly relevant in a multi-tenanted environment with different project teams controlling different sites. The article addresses in a simple way on how to understand the mechanisms of stat file and gives a detailed explanation of how it can be used in a multi-tenant environment model. The image for your reference as a quick overview of the data flow, before we take a deep dive. This article covers - 1 - When dispatcher serves the old version of the content. How to avoid it. 2- Cache invalidation mechanism. Assumption - If you are reading this article, I believe you would have a basic understanding of Dispatcher and it's configuration. Firstly let’s set the initial configuration for the cache invalidation section of the dis

how to clear dispatcher cache in aem ?

- April 22, 2023

How to clear dispatcher cache in aem ? As you may know, the Dispatcher cache in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is used to improve the performance of your website by caching static resources and pages. However, sometimes you may need to clear the cache to ensure that the latest content and changes are displayed on your website. In this blog post, we'll show you how to clear the Dispatcher cache in AEM. This method will clear the entire Dispatcher cache, including all cached pages and resources. Keep in mind that clearing the cache may affect the performance of your website, as it may take some time to rebuild the cache. Clear Cache using the Dispatcher Flush Agent You can use the Dispatcher Flush Agent. Follow these steps: Log in to your AEM instance and navigate to http://localhost:4502/etc/replication/agents.author.html . Click on the "Dispatcher Flush" agent to open the agent's configuration page. Clic

AEM Security Headers

- April 30, 2020

Added Security in AEM via Headers:- In design a robust architecture AEM Architects, Developers, Infrastructure Engineers regularly come across a challenge for adding the additional security in AEM. In this article, we will understand the key security headers which can be used in webserver and give an additional layer of security for your Publish server and content. I have used Apache webserver for all the examples. This article covers - 1 - X-XSS protection 2 - HTTP Strick Transport Security 3 - X-Frame Option 4 - Content Security 1- X-XSS Protection:- X-XSS-Protection header can prevent some level of XSS (cross-site-scripting ) attacks. Configure the x-xss-protection header to 1 in your apache httpd.conf file or Vhost file if you have for all domains as applicable. <IfModule mod_headers.c> <FilesMatch "\.(htm|html)$"> #Force XSS (should be on by default in most browsers anyway)

How to Increase Apache Request Per Second ?

- January 15, 2022

How to Increase Apache Request Per Second ? By default, Apache web server is configured to support 160 requests per second. As your website traffic increases, Apache will start dropping additional requests and this will spoil customer experience. Here’s how to increase Apache requests per second. 1. Install MPM module We need to install MPM Apache module to be able to increase Apache requests per second. You can use mpm_worker or mpm_event module for this, instead of mpm_prefork module which consumes a lot of memory. You can easily install MPM module in Apache with following command For CentOS7/RHEL7 : Adjust /etc/httpd/conf.modules.d/00-mpm.conf Comment the line LoadModule mpm_prefork_module modules/mod_mpm_prefork.so by adding # in front of it. Uncomment the line LoadModule mpm_worker_module modules/mod_mpm_worker.so by removing # in front of it. For Ubuntu/Debian : Use a2dismod / a2enmod to disable mpm_prefork and enable mpm_worker 2. Increase Max Connections in Apache Open MP

How to Sync HMAC in AEM ?

- April 30, 2022

Crypto Support in AEM (Syncing HMAC among AEM instances) AEM OOTB provides a feature where we can encrypt the secured and confidential data through OOTB AEM Crypto Support and store it in a code repository in the form of OSGi configuration. Crypto Support is based on keys (hmac and master files) which are unique for each AEM instance. Encrypted text generated for the same plain-text string on one AEM instance will be different from another instance. This can raise alarms in cases where we have the same OSGi configuration values shared among Author and Publish instances under the same topology. For e.g. /apps/project/config.prod/com.day.cq.db.dbservice.xml Here DB password for Default DB Service will be same across all Prod AEM instances. So, in order to make sure that the same encrypted value works on all Prod instances, we will have to sync hmac and master files among Prod Author and Publish instances. Vital Points to know before HMAC SYNC Sync of HMAC/keys will break the AEM SSL and

How to protect AEM against CSRF Attack ?

- March 02, 2023

How to protect AEM against CSRF Attack ? Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is a popular content management system that is widely used to develop and manage websites, mobile apps, and other digital experiences. However, like any other web application, AEM is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks. CSRF attacks are malicious attacks where an attacker tricks a user into performing an action they did not intend to perform by exploiting the user's active session on a website. In this blog, we will discuss some measures that can be taken to protect AEM from CSRF attacks. Implement CSRF protection in AEM: The first and most important step to protect AEM from CSRF attacks is to implement CSRF protection in the application. AEM provides a built-in CSRF protection mechanism that can be enabled by setting the "sling.filter.methods" property in the OSGi configuration. This property specifies which HTTP methods are allowed to execute without requiring a CSRF

Upgrading the AEM dispatcher module

- April 09, 2022

Upgrading the dispatcher module in AEM Often the AEM dev-ops team faces the challenge on Dispatcher upgradation. It is not clear anywhere how to do it and what precautions one should take while doing the same. In this article we will cover these steps, Upgrading the Dispatcher Module : Step 1 - Download the required dispatcher module version from the Adobe dispatcher download page , Make sure you download the dispatcher version module as per the OS. https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-dispatcher/using/getting-started/release-notes.html?lang=en Step 2 - Extract the dispatcher module at some location on server or local machine. tar -xvzf <dispatcher-xxxxxxxx.tar.gz> (linux) Step 3 - Copy the extracted dispatcher-xxxxxxxxxx.so file to the module folder of the server. Module folder location can vary based on OS, Installation Type. hence please make sure you find the correct module folder. Step 4 - Set the

How Does S3 works with AEM ?

- June 20, 2021

How Does S3 works with AEM ? Accommodating a huge amount of assets in any content management platform is challenging. Adobe Experience Manager offers an integration with the Amazon S3 storage solution, allowing binary data for images, documents and videos to be stored in an S3 bucket. Amazon S3 is highly performant and offers nearly infinite storage capacity. When talking about terabyte storage, performance is everything. The choices made during the planning and architecting phase can literally make or break the performance of a CMS system and the websites running on it. Adobe Experience Manager offers a number of storage methods, each offering a different way of storing data. Each of these options has its strengths and weaknesses. In AEM storage the mechanisms are called Micro Kernels, or MK for short. In this article we will look at the AEM with S3 data store. For the detailed steps for S3 configuration you can refer - https://www.aemrules.com/2022/05/how-to-configure-s3-in-aem

How to prevent DDoS in Apache ?

- May 06, 2023

Prevent DDoS in Apache & IP Block Automation DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks are a type of cyberattack that can cause serious damage to your web server. These attacks involve flooding your server with a huge volume of traffic, overwhelming its resources and causing it to crash. In this blog post, we'll discuss how to prevent DDoS attacks in Apache, without using any third part tool/application. Available Options to Prevent DDoS : You can use various mentioned methods to achieve the same. But using WAF, CDN, etc will cost extra dollars. Which might not be necessary for a small scale application. Use a Web Application Firewall (WAF): A WAF can help detect and block malicious traffic before it reaches your Apache server. It can also help block common attack vectors, such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS). Install mod_evasive: mod_evasive is an Apache module that helps detect and block DDoS attacks. It wor

Dispatcher flush from AEM UI

- April 05, 2022

How to Delete Dispatcher cache without logging into the Dispatcher servers? Our Authoring team faces day to day challenges while deleting/flush the dispatcher cache. when the changes are not visible on server. They have to be depended on the IT operations/Dev ops teams to do the same. Which some time get very much time consuming for a small work. In this article we will see it can be configure and used by Author UI itself. This will allow AEM authors (or “super authors”) to flush parts of the dispatcher cache manually without the involvement of IT Operations. How to Use 1. Log in to AEM Author 2. Download the ACS commons tool from ACS Commons Official page 3. Install the downloaded package via aem package manager. 4. Make sure you create the dispatcher flush agents on Author for all Dispatchers. from http://<<host:port>>/miscadmin#/etc/replication/agents.author, check the NOTE's part at the end of page. 5. Navigate to Tools 6. Under the acs-commmons/dispatcher-flu

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