In a 6.3 setup with author/public on different tomcat containers. If the public instance runs without a publish microconfig profile under smallrye.config.locations, publication related functions will not behave as usual. Some of the problem:

• Cannot open Publishing tools and Configurations app on public instance, UI throw exception related to ActivationManager instantiation failures.
• Cannot publish from author to public
  • author will report error 500
  • public will report below error:

13-Mar-2024 09:29:14.978 WARNING [main] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.await StandardServer.await: Invalid command '' received
2024-03-13 09:30:15,003 WARN magnolia.jcr.node2bean.impl.Node2BeanProcessorImpl: Did not manage to create a bean for node [/server/activation], this part of configuration will be skipped
2024-03-13 09:30:15,004 WARN fo.magnolia.objectfactory.ObservedComponentFactory: An instance of interface info.magnolia.cms.exchange.ActivationManager couldn't be loaded from config:/server/activation yet, returning null.

Expected:

Publication MP is only matter at author instance.