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Think things through, or: Simple way to 404 Not Found instead of EPiServer login screen for unpublished pages
I spent some time today attempting to make visitors land on a custom 404 Not Found error page when surfing to EPiServer pages that are no longer published; i.e. pages where the StopPublish date has passed (click here to skip my rant and go directly to the solution). The behaviour that we were experiencing on…
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Embedding EPiServer VPP images in HTML using base64 encoding
This is a follow up to my previous post about allowing web editors to dynamically change the content of their static error pages (this one). The solution I described would not let us insert any graphical elements requiring database access; such as images from EPiServer’s VPP folders. Here is a way to do it; sample…
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Allowing web editors to customize static error pages in EPiServer
Some time back, I encountered the need to dynamically alter static error pages through EPiServer’s edit mode; or more specifically, edit an error page for a 500 Internal Server Error, caused by a database related failure. Since it might be tiresome for editors to change static files on a webserver, and since EPiServer tends to…