Publish Environment

When ready, the AEM site’s content is published to the publish environment. Here the website’s pages are made available to the intended audience in accordance with the look-and-feel of the designed interface.

Usually, the publish environment is located inside the demilitarized zone; in other words, available to the internet, but no longer under the full protection of the internal network.

When the AEM site is a community site, or includes Communities components, signed-in site visitors (members) may interact with Communities features. For example, they may post to a forum, post a comment, or follow other members. Members may be granted permission to perform activites normally limited to the author environment, such as create new pages (community groups), blog articles, and moderate other members’ posts.

NOTE
Unfortunately there is sometimes an overlap in the terminology used. This can happen with:
  • Publish / Unpublish
    These are the primary terms for the actions that make your content publicly available on your publish environment (or not).

  • Activate / Deactivate
    These terms are synonymous with publish/unpublish. They are more common in the classic UI.

  • Replicate / Replication
    These are the technical terms used to indicate the movement of data (e.g. page content, files, code, user comments) from one environment to another; i.e. when publishing, or reverse-replicating user comments.