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XM Cloud - Publish error "Invalid Authority connection string. Required parameter 'url' is missing"

Hi Team,

If you are exploring and working on XM Cloud and have set up XM Cloud instance on your local environment, You might run into following issue on publish

 

Because Sitecore XM Cloud instance works on Experience edge and there is no content delivery server which reads from WEB DB, It always publishes on experience edge

Because we are habitual (at-least i am) to publish the API KEY after creation, Because it is mentioned in the steps below url (point-6)

https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/hd/211/sitecore-headless-development/create-a-sitecore-api-key.html


and that is why in my other non cloud XM instance (stand alone on-prem), i am habitual to create an API and publish it, and i was doing the same in my XM Cloud Local instance too.

But with local XM Cloud docker instance, It does not work that way, Because local does not work with experience edge, and when you see publishing wizard it only has one publishing target i.e "Experience edge" and that why above error comes


so when you publish anything, It gives below exception 

#Exception: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> Sitecore.ExperienceEdge.Connector.ContentHubDelivery.Exceptions.EdgeApiException: [ExperienceEdge Publishing]: An error has occurred while publishing JobStart event 93cf8ce8-8c97-4397-9e13-5fe028ada15b for publishing job '638156301229470000'. Please see inner exception for more details. ---> Sitecore.Exceptions.ConfigurationException: Invalid Authority connection string. Required parameter 'url' is missing.

Solution

1) You actually have to do nothing, because your local rendering hosts in docker for XM Cloud, runs against CM instance, so everything should work OOTB and you do not need to publish anything as there is no content delivery role concept which reads from WEB db.

2) If you still want to publish and want to play around with any use cases etc. you can create a new publishing target called "web" and while publishing select that "web" as the target and not experience edge (not sure if this support will be there in future or not as there is no content delivery role)

everything should work !!!

I saw people asking similar questions and hence thought to pen it down


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