EPiServer Archive
I was setting up a new port for SSL on my local development machine for added security on a client’s EPiServer 7.5 website when I stumbled across an exception that was not all at once obvious. I set up a new https binding in the IIS along with a self signed certificate; my normal unsecure site continued to respond just fine to calls on http://localhost:17002/ …
We had this splendid little cache manager in my previous project that simplified handling caching for us. It was written by a former collegue of mine, Patrik Akselsson, and last week I found a need for a similar thing at my new client’s. Looking back at what I already had, I set about making a similar CacheManager that would work with the new EPiServer 7.5 …
I recently got my hands on a new project at work and wanted to see if I could avoid using EPiServer‘s ServiceLocator to resolve the dependencies in my code. From previous projects I was used to being able to inject whatever I needed directly through the constructor, and felt that I wanted to continue doing so. For instance, my class CanHasCookies implements the interface ICanHasCookies …
All is set. You got the final go from your client to move their site from EPiServer 7.0 to 7.5, and from here on it should be a walk in the park. Coffee is brewed, installation packages and VPP migration tools downloaded, extracted and at the ready. The EPiServer’s Deployment Center upgrade process finishes without a hitch, and you run off to Visual Studio hitting …
I encountered an annoying DiretoryNotFoundException while moving one of my existing EPiServer 7 hobby sites to a new server, and thought that a quick note about it would be in order. The exception was this; Could not find a part of the path ‘D:\Projekt\MyProject\src\MyProject.Web\ClientResources\ClientResources\packages.config’. After some well spent time reading the configuration files I found the cause being, as surprisingly often with this kind of …
Taking your EPiServer CMS 6 site to 7.5 requires you to make a few code changes. I thought I’d share a piece of code for getting the latest version of a page (published or not), as all you seem to get from Google is EPiServer 6 examples using obsolete methods; like in the one below. The new way of achieving this would be to get …
The other day I got a question from a collegue of mine whether or not the piece I wrote on supplying scheduled jobs with input parameters (EPiServer CMS6R2) would still work for version 7.5. I suspected it would, but since I wanted to make sure I set up two of EPiServer’s Alloy template sites; one using WebForms and the other with MVC. Tweaked source code …
I wrote a small EPiServer admin tool the other day in order to make it easier to retrieve log files without having direct access to the webserver. It is a rather straight forward piece that lists the files of a certain directory, and writes their content to the response output stream when clicked on. Limitations include the tool not taking load balanced multi server environments …
My current project has undergone some rather large changes the last couple of months; core functionality being moved out of the solution, functionality needing to be cleaned away and so forth. I suspected that we were left with a rather large number of stray translations in our EPiServer language files because of this, so I took some time and wrote a small console tool to …
I quite often get questions on how we deal with testing and inversion of control in my current web forms project running on EPiServer CMS 6. I wrote an article about it when I first started working with it, and feel that maybe it is time to add some supplemental notes on how to include EPiServer in the mix. If you are interested in something …
We put a little time in my current project looking into what it might mean if we were to upgrade our site from EPiServer CMS 6 R2 to the current version 7.5; we were to identify benefits, risks, potential money sinks and so on specific for this client. As I suspect this is not an uncommon request, I thought I’d share some of the findings. …
I put a some effort in finding out how to install an EPiServer CMS 6 site on a virtual machine running Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core; there was a question about it on the EPiServer World Forums and I thought I’d help out a bit. The whole process turned out to be a little bit trickier than I had anticipated, but I managed to …
Update: There is a hotfix available for this, see Per’s comment further down. We noticed a weird problem on one of our test servers in my current project some time ago. For some reason there was a massive output of JavaScript in the EPiServer ActionWindow, in addition to the normal functionality making it impossible to use the file manager. Us not experiencing anything like it …
I ran into some problems the other day trying to install an EPiServer 7 site onto an old Windows 7 developer machine using EPiServer‘s Deployment Center. Everything seemed to be going well until I was hit with an account related error. Opening up the installation PowerShell script file in question (\EPiServer\CMS\7.0.586.1\Install\System Scripts\Install Site (No database).ps1) soon revield what was going on. Apparently the EPiServer installation …
EPiServer‘s insert link dialog has an option that allows web editors to insert links to anchor tag bookmarks contained within the page currently being edited. This option, however, is not yet available when using the Page on this website alternative as a Link target. A client requested similar functionality for their EPiServer CMS 6 R2 installation, so I and my collegue Joachim Widén spent a …
There are times when I’ve found that well considered and thought-through EPiServer scheduled job settings have been changed in environments where they really shouldn’t be. People usually have some reason for doing what they’re doing but it’s hard to follow if you’re unable to figure out why, and if nobody can remember doing it. I’ve had this audit log functionality on my TODO list for …
In my current project we do quite a bit of automatic copying of EPiServer pages as well as creation of child pages triggered by various web editor actions (part of the review functionality that Stefan Forsberg talks about in a series of posts starting with Reviewing pages in EPiServer – background). This is not a problem however, until the web administrators start to convert pages …
I was recently asked by a collegue of mine to see if I could help him move the custom EPiServer image map property to his current EPiServer 5 project (originally built for EPiServer CMS 6, see EPiServer custom property: Allowing web editors to create image maps with flexible hot spot areas). There were a few issues with the JavaScript not working as intended, as well …
The latest version of the SiteSeeker search engine supports indexing and searching in a variety of different languages; however, languages that are not using the latin alphabet, for instance arabic, hebrew, japanese as well as chinese, cannot be indexed. If you still try, you will be getting a bunch of nonsense characters instead of your expected text for each hit. One way of solving this …
When working with large EPiServer websites having hundreds of tousands of visitors each month, you will want to make sure that you get as little downtime as possible while deploying your new releases; especially if the website’s content is of a nature that downtime may cause unnecessary damage, financial or otherwise, to the visitors. As these large websites are likely to run in load balanced …