Licensing Archive

EPiServer License information: A error occured while loading the license file.

Short note-to-self: if replacing contents of an Episerver license file using variables in Octopus Deploy, make sure the file uses the proper encoding, or you may find yourself facing the following error message: At a client of mine the Episerver license is written to the episerver.license-file using Octopus Deploy. Initially the file only contains the Octopus variable placeholder #{EpiserverLicense} which is then replaced for each …

Deploying an EPiServer website in a load balanced environment using master slave licenses without downtime for visitors

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 …