- Figure out why pages might not load in the Editor
- Figure out why you can't log into your page within the Editor
- Load password-protected, Intranet, or gated pages in the Editor
- Load session-specific content, like a shopping cart, in the Editor
Are you unable to log into a page that's password-protected, session-specific, or behind basic authentication with the Optimizely Editor? If your site is password-protected, behind basic authentication, or requires session-specific information to access certain pages, those pages will not immediately load in the Editor.
Password-protected pages and pages behind basic authentication might include Intranet pages, staging sites behind firewalls, and pages that are gated or available only to logged-in visitors. Pages that require session-specific information to load include shopping carts.
In either case, here's how to give the Optimizely Editor access to the necessary cookies or session-specific information it needs to load the page correctly:
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Open your site in a browser tab and navigate to the page you want to edit. To get to the page, you might need to log in, complete a portion of a form or add an item to your cart if you are trying to load a checkout page. Take the exact steps that get you to the exact page that you want to load in the Editor.
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Copy the URL of the page.
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Load Optimizely in an adjacent browser tab where you had the page open.
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Create an experiment using the copied URL of the page you want to test.