Last reviewed: April 25, 2025
Creating a new FES site for Content Publisher testing
Creating a new FES site for Content Publisher testing
Note: Pantheon Front End Sites are not available to new customers and are still experimental.
Setting up your repositories
Setting up your repositories
- Use the Content Publisher CLI to initialize the starter kit on your local machine.
- Create a new repository on Github leaving the license, README and .gitignore sections unselected for an empty repository. Take note of git SSH URI for use in step 3.
- Change your local directory to the starter kit that you initialized and enter the following commands to push the starter kit to Github
git init
git add --all
git commit -m "first commit"
git branch -M main
git remote add origin [your repo URI]
git push -u origin main
4. Connect your Github repository to FES
Configuring Pantheon Content Publisher
Configuring Pantheon Content Publisher
- Use the PCC CLI on your local machine to register a new site and token using the domain that was given to your FES site (typically, live-[sitename].appa.pantheon.site)
- Set Environment Variables (PCC_SITE_ID and PCC_TOKEN) for the site id and token you just created.
- Trigger a new build from the Pantheon Dashboard.
- Update the URL of the site using the CLI.
Connecting Google Docs
Connecting Google Docs
- Install the Google Docs Add-on and connect the document to the site you just created.
Note that the site will show up in the Add-on ONLY after it has been successfully configured and deployed from the Pantheon Dashboard.