Accessing the classic ui on a deployed CookiePlone instance

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Hey future self... just a quick note, in case you need to access the classic UI on your CookiePlone-built site.

As you know, cookieplone is optimised for volto. Typically you might go to port 8080 to get to the classic UI. This isn't possible to do with a cookieplone-based deployment, even if you use an SSH tunnel.

Don't worry though. They have a solution for this use case.
It is possible to access the classic UI when using Cookieplone
by visiting /ClassicUI

https://yoursite.example.com/ClassicUI

This means it is possible to do things that are trickier in Volto at the moment.

  1. For example exporting the schema for a backend content type.
  2. Rebuilding the catalog - /ClassicUI/portal_catalog/manage_catalogAdvanced
  3. Managing workflows - /ClassicUI/portal_workflow/manage_selectWorkflows