Version AEM 6.3, this is my local instance.
Everytime I go into AEM to install a bundle on my local it says exec.json is missing, I found a manual override for the issue, but it's doubled my time to integrate bundles.
Error
Creating Package
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
service/exec.json?cmd=create:1 Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
Dialog.js:191 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'msg' of undefined
at constructor.CRX.ide.Dialog.DEFAULT_ERROR_HANDLER (Dialog.js:191)
at Object.callback (ext-base-debug.js:1443)
at Ext.form.BasicForm.afterAction (ext-all-debug.js:56465)
at Ext.form.Action.Submit.failure (ext-all-debug.js:58865)
at Ext.data.Connection.handleFailure (ext-all-debug.js:8564)
at handleTransactionResponse (ext-base-debug.js:2517)
at ext-base-debug.js:2552
Installing Package
ext-all-debug.js:8665 POST http://localhost:4502/crx/packmgr/service/exec.json?cmd=upload&jsonInTextarea=true 404 (Not Found)
doFormUpload @ ext-all-debug.js:8665
request @ ext-all-debug.js:8853
(anonymous) @ ext-base-debug.js:751
run @ ext-all-debug.js:59008
(anonymous) @ ext-base-debug.js:831
setTimeout (async)
defer @ ext-base-debug.js:864
doAction @ ext-all-debug.js:56328
submit @ ext-all-debug.js:56384
doSubmit @ UploadPackageDialog.js:56
submit @ Dialog.js:128
onClick @ ext-all-debug.js:41008
h @ ext-all-debug.js:2463
VM420:2 Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token <
at doDecode (ext-all-debug.js:11527)
at Object.decode (ext-all-debug.js:11649)
at Ext.form.Action.Submit.handleResponse (ext-all-debug.js:59055)
at Ext.form.Action.Submit.processResponse (ext-all-debug.js:58876)
at Ext.form.Action.Submit.success (ext-all-debug.js:59024)
at runCallback (ext-all-debug.js:8652)
at Ext.data.Connection.cb (ext-all-debug.js:8656)
at HTMLIFrameElement.h (ext-all-debug.js:2463)
I solved this issue, by finding an old blog: https://aemgeeks.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/install-crx-packages-bundles-automatically-on-server-startup/
Steps
install
folder at the root of crx-quickstart folder.install
folder.