Acquia DAM
Install and set up authentication
This section describes how to install the Acquia DAM module for Drupal, connect your Drupal site to Acquia DAM, and configure features such as image styles, metadata mapping, and user authentication.
Use these pages when you are:
Set up Acquia DAM for the first time on a Drupal site.
Connect a new Drupal environment, such as dev, stage, or prod, to Acquia DAM.
Review how authentication and permissions work between Drupal and Acquia DAM.
Explains prerequisites, support boundaries, and how to add and enable the module through Composer, Drush, or the Drupal administrative interface.
Learn how to generate the API credentials that allow your Drupal site to communicate securely with Acquia DAM.
Authenticate a site with an Acquia DAM
Connect your Drupal environment to your Acquia DAM instance with the generated credentials.
How to verify the connection through testing.
Understand how users gain access to Acquia DAM assets through Drupal.
How to re-authenticate users when tokens expire, such as when you resolve 401 Unauthorized errors in the Drupal Media Browser.
Set up how images from Acquia DAM are transformed and displayed in Drupal.
Enable image styles for DAM-backed media.
Control how metadata from Acquia DAM appears in Drupal.
Map DAM metadata fields to Drupal media fields.
Select which metadata to store, display, and search.
Update mappings when your DAM metadata model changes.
Generate and authenticate: Start with the API access token and site authentication when you set up a new environment.
Fine-tune display: Configure image styles and metadata mapping once the DAM connection is active and you are ready to adjust how assets appear in Drupal.
Review user access: Evaluate user authentication behavior if users report missing assets or 401 Unauthorized errors in the DAM media browser.
For common questions and error scenarios related to authentication and permissions, you can also refer to FAQs.
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