If you are on AEM 6.5 and have upgraded to Service Pack 5 (AEM version 6.5.5) you might have noticed that you can no longer login to AEM via CRX/DE
This change was implemented in the SP5 update and according to the CSE that our team worked with:
“The login and logout buttons have been removed on purpose from CRXDE for security reasons (internal ID: GRANITE-27790). Back ported to AEM 6.5.5.0 as part NPR-33521.”
The work around that the CSE suggested was to navigate to:https://<HOST>:<PORT>/libs/granite/core/content/login.html
login and then navigate to /crx/de
You can take that workaround a step further and navigate tohttps://<HOST>:<PORT>/libs/granite/core/content/login.html?resource=crx/de
the added resource=/crx/de param here is just the AEM param for redirect after authentication. Basically, after you login, you’ll be redirected to /crx/de
That only works on Author instances, for Publish instances, you have to navigate to package manager:https://<HOST>:<PORT>/crx/packmgr/index.html
login, then navigate to /crx/de
