After installing Experience Commerce 9.0 successfully and attempting to load the front-end website I was greeted with the following error message:
Empty strings are not allowed.
Parameter name: value
With the stack trace:
[ArgumentException: Empty strings are not allowed.
Parameter name: value]
Sitecore.Diagnostics.Assert.ArgumentNotNullOrEmpty(String argument, String argumentName) +204
Sitecore.Data.ID.Parse(String value) +30
Sitecore.Commerce.XA.Foundation.Common.Models.CommerceStorefront.get_ControlPanel() +105
Sitecore.Commerce.XA.Foundation.Common.Models.CommerceStorefront.get_StorefrontConfiguration() +10
Sitecore.Commerce.XA.Foundation.Common.Pipelines.SecuredPageProcessor.IsSslEnforcedForStorefront() +35
Sitecore.Commerce.XA.Foundation.Common.Pipelines.SecuredPageProcessor.Process(PipelineArgs args) +164
(Object , Object[] ) +74
Sitecore.Pipelines.CorePipeline.Run(PipelineArgs args) +469
Sitecore.Pipelines.DefaultCorePipelineManager.Run(String pipelineName, PipelineArgs args, String pipelineDomain) +22
Sitecore.Web.RequestEventsHandler.OnPostAuthenticateRequest(HttpContextBase context) +214
Sitecore.Nexus.Web.HttpModule. (Object , EventArgs ) +335
System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +136
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStepImpl(IExecutionStep step) +195
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +88
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Sitecore commerce - empty strings are not allowed |
This error message appears because on a default instance the example Storefront site (with content) is not installed and instead you get an empty site. In fact the home node by default actually has no presentation details.
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Experience Commerce empty site |
What you need to do is inser a new Site under the Sitecore node:
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Sitecore Experience Commerce - new site |
Ensuring that the following 3 features are selected to get the full Storefront demo:
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Sitecore Experience Commerce - new site features |
As well as selecting the correct theme:
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Sitecore Experience Commerce - new site theme |
In my case, I then deleted the empty Storefront site and renamed this new one Storefront. Performed a full publish and the front-end loaded correctly.
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Sitecore Experience Commerce - Storefront demo site |
In cases where you wish to build out a site from scratch, this demo site is still good to use as a reference to assist in building the required pages/components.
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