Setting up publishing for Experience Manager in the deprecated publishing framework

If you are using the publishing framework that was deprecated in SDL Web 8, enable publishing content to a staging site for your users by showing and filling in the Session Preview tab in a Publication Target.

Procedure

  1. Access Content Manager Explorer.
  2. If you have not already done so, create a Publication Target that publishes to your staging website.
  3. In the General tab of your Publication Target, select Enable for inline editing.
    A new Session Preview tab appears.
  4. On the new Session Preview tab, set Content Delivery Endpoint URL to the URL of the Preview service end point. This URL is one of the following:
    • For a JSP website, add the string BASEURL/cd_preview_webservice/preview.svc/. If you have a servlet-mapping defined in your web.xml, then insert the path of the servlet mapping after cd_preview_webservice/. For example, if your servlet mapping maps the web service to a subdirectory ws/, add the string <baseURL>/cd_preview_webservice/ws/preview.svc/.
    • For a .NET website, add the string BASEURL/preview.svc/.

    where BASEURL is the base URL (host name and port) of the machine on which you set up your Content Delivery Preview Service, for example, http://localhost:8080/.

  5. Use the Add button under Web site URLs to create a list of one or more URLs that represent the staging website, such as http://localhost:82 or http://myserver.mydomain:83/.