Installing Sitecore Horizon Editor

Horizon is the next generation editor in Sitecore experience platform. Experience editor is legacy editor now. Please follow below steps to install Horizon on a vanilla Sitecore 9.3 instance:

Download Horizon installation files

Download installation files from here. There are two download option.

I selected first option because working on dev machine. Next step is to unzip the downloaded zip file. You will see below files:

In order to install horizon, you have to modify parameters.ps1. You have to modify below parameters.

1. ContentManagementInstanceName - Your vanilla sitecore instance name
2. ContentManagementWebProtocol - always https
3. SitecoreIdentityServerPhysicalPath - It will be installed with your sitecore 9.3 instance. Copy the path from inetpub folder.
4. SitecoreIdentityServerPoolName - Application pool for sitecore identity server.
5. SitecoreIdentityServerSiteName - Identity Server instance name
6. License path - Your sitecore license path

Please see my local changes in below image:

Now, launch powershell in admin mode and run the install.ps1 or right click on install.ps1 and select run with powershell. Horizon will be installed within a minute. This script will create a separate application in IIS.

I experienced an issue with install.ps1 while running this with Powershell ISE. I solved this issue by executing script with normal powershell. Another issue, I encountered due to wrong path of license file. I solved this issue by referring this post on sitecore stack exchange.

You can access Horizon from sitcore launchpad.

As you can see the new rocket icon under content editing section.

Click on on the Horizon and it will launch a separate application. You can explore more about Horizon editor here.

There are couple of post installation steps that you can find in Horizon installation guide provided by sitecore here.

You are all set to explore next generation editor. Cheers.