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A Go-Live Checklist For A New Site Built With Sitecore SXA
A Go-Live Checklist For A New Site Built With Sitecore SXA
A Go-Live Checklist For A New Site Built With Sitecore SXA
One gotcha that is not covered in the official docs at time of writing is that you
need to make sure that the static error page .html file is deployed to all your CM and CD
instances. Here is some more info and helpful hints on troubleshooting issues when
setting it up and configuring.
config. However, I’d only recommend doing this if you have a very good reason (I can’t
think of any at the moment, but I’m sure there are some customization edge cases where
this would be a good option).
I usually would check and configure the following on each Site Grouping site in the
environment.
Configure a custom link provider. If the site only supports one language then usually
you’ll want to prevent language embedding or at least enable lowercase URLs.
Make sure all Database settings are set to Web if the Host Name value will be used a
CD server.
Check your site(s) in the Site Manager to make sure there’s no issues with site
ordering.
Configure Sitemap.xml
If you have multiple sites, watch out for this potential issue when using wildcard
hostnames.
Set a Favicon
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Favicons are necessary to add that extra polish to the site. Instructions are
available here on how to configure one.
4. Deploy all Marketing Definitions and Taxonomies. Instructions for how to do this are
part of the Installation Guide for your version of Sitecore. One tip I can give is if it
doesn’t succeed and there’s no errors in the logs, try and deploy them one by one in
reverse order.
5. Validate all instances in your Sitecore environment. How? I’m simply going to link to
this post by Pete Navarra as it is quite definitive. One other tool that may help with
checking xConnect connectivity is xConnectHelper.
Security
There are many considerations here and every installation and implementation is
unique, but here are a few general things you can check on:
Limit access to Sitecore pages on CD servers. Either use URL Rewrite rules or deny
anonymous access.
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