Nothing Showing in CRXDE Lite in AEM/CQ5

When working on a CQ5 project for a client that involves multiple development environments, I came across an issue on some of the dev servers. For most of them, logging into CRXDE Lite gave me the full tree of the JCR repository. On a couple of others, CRXDE Lite displayed nothing more than the root node.

Viewing the error.log gave me this error:

28.01.2013 23:02:35.405 *INFO* [10.73.64.4 [1359414155401] GET /crx/server/crx.default/jcr%3aroot/.1.json HTTP/1.1] org.apache.sling.engine.impl.SlingRequestProcessorImpl service: Resource /crx/server/crx.default/jcr:root/.1.json not found

After asking around, I discovered that CRXDE Lite used WebDAV in order to communicate with the JCR. After checking the CQ5 OSGi console, I saw that the following bundles were not running:

Apache Sling DavEx Access to repositories
Apache Sling Simple WebDAV Access to repositories

After starting these two bundles and refreshing CRXDE Lite, all was well again.



Moral of the story: Things tend to work better when the switch is in the ‘on’ position – know where these switches are when it’s dark.