You’re a Sitecore developer and want to know how to implement the website(s) using Sitecore Experience Accelerator 9.3.0 (aka SXA 9.3.0) on Sitecore Experience Platform 9.3 Initial Release (aka Sitecore XP 9.3.0) and following Helix principles.
Here is the step by step guide for setting up Sitecore demo – Habitat Home – on your machine so that you’re able to play around with the Sitecore solution example and learn something.
Setup Prerequisites for Sitecore 9.3
- it’s configured for HTTPS/SSL only
- Windows 10
- Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.7 or later)
- Note: Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7 and later supports migrating a project from the packages.config management format to the PackageReference format, click here to learn more about it
You must log into https://dev.sitecore.net/ before downloading the following:
Step-by-step Guide for this Sitecore 9.3 demo
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If you have not done so, start with installing the ones below
- a fresh Sitecore XP 9.3.0 instance , let’s say habitathome930.local and habitathome930.xconnect.local (xConnect site)
- Url Rewrite 2.1
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Install all required Sitecore modules below via Installation Wizard
- Note 1: must log into https://dev.sitecore.net/ before downloading
- Note 2: if you don’t follow the order above strictly, you will see something like this
- Note 3: you’re able to overcome it by reinstalling the failed one with Overwrite option
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Publish your Sitecore Instance
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Download or clone the git repo from Habitat Home Platform 9.3.0 to D:\Projects\HHP930
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Take Note that I prefer not to use the default settings so I need to adjust the appropriate values in:
- cake-config.json
- \src\Project\Global\code\App_Config\Include\Project\z.DevSettings.config
- cake-config.json
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Deploy Sitecore.HabitatHome.Platform
- launch PowerShell as an administrator
- change directory to D:\Projects\HHP930
- execute .\build
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Hopefully everything runs well and then you would see something like this code below:
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Open up a new browser and navigate to https://habitathome930.local and you would see something like this:
Note: a known issue
- Search function does NOT work as expected: No results
- my suggestion: ensure to perform “Create SOLR SXA cores” step (page 6 – 8) in SXA 9.3.0 Installation Guide (Note: must log into https://dev.sitecore.net/ before downloading) and then you would see something like this
Finally, you are done with the Sitecore XP version 9.3.0 Demo Installation! Hope you learned something from this Sitecore 9.30 demo tutorial.
- my suggestion: ensure to perform “Create SOLR SXA cores” step (page 6 – 8) in SXA 9.3.0 Installation Guide (Note: must log into https://dev.sitecore.net/ before downloading) and then you would see something like this
