Create a new site using Reference EDS Template

Prerequisites

You’ve completed the previous step of setting up your own GitHub Repository before proceeding to this page.

• Navigate to AEM Start Screen > Sites > Create > Site from template
• Choose latest version of “Reference EDS Template 2.x”

• On next screen, enter details as below:
  • Site Title: Your Brand Title e.g. ABC Corp
  • Site name: use the same name exactly as you specified in the paths.json file in the previous step in the Git setup. e.g. “abc”
  • Project URL: This is your own GitHub URL that you created

We are good to go now:

• You will notice a corresponding folder in your AEM Assets for your brand.
• You’ve a base site with your brand name and can start making content changes.
• You can create as many brand sites as required with the above steps, on your AEM env.
• For Logo, Header, and Footer: Edit respective pages in site hierarchy named Header & Footer

Publishing to Edge

• You can start publishing your content to Edge Network. Make sure all referenced assets and config files/pages are also published e.g. pages like “placeholders”, “Header”, “Footer”, etc.
• For detailed steps, check here.