Mastering the AEM Dispatcher Part 4: Sharing Content with SSI
Published on by Dan Klco
We're delving deeper into the AEM Dispatcher as we continue in the series, Mastering the AEM Dispatcher. In this post, we'll discuss how to share content with non-AEM applications in the Dispatcher using SSI includes. Integrating AEM and non-AEM websites is tricky. To create a consistent look and feel, you need to share the stylesheets, header, and footer, but you don't want to be duplicating information or hard-coding in markup into non-AEM sites. If your website lives in or publishes to Apache, you can use Server Side Includes (or SSI) to include the content seamlessly into the non-AEM websites. Using SSI to include content from AEM websites on non-AEM sites, requires a few steps to get set up and work properly to avoid caching issues. Step 1: Enable SSI SSI is not enabled in Apache by default, so the first thing you'll need to do is enable SSI. You...