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Couple of years back Sitecore launched No-SQL platform for analytics by collaboration with MongoDB. Which drastically increased scalability for websites struggling with performance issues using Sitecore Analytics on SQL with heavy traffic. Sitecore mandated to use Mongo for Analytics hence whoever was upgrading to the latest versions left with NO options other than implementing MongoDB.... Continue Reading →
When we load balance your web site at layer 7, it will become non-transparent. This means that the actual client source IP address is replaced by the load balancer’s own IP address, and therefore ONLY this address will be recorded in the IIS logs. One way around this is to insert X-Forwarded-For headers on the load balancer to... Continue Reading →
OOB "Sitemap XML Module" generate the Sitemap XML on Content Management Servers only. To get it generated on Content Delivery Servers as well, we need to add a custom event. Normally we have atleast one Content Management and one Content Delivery Server. But on scalable and distributed architecure number of servers increases based on requirements.... Continue Reading →
We recently upgraded from 7.2 to 8.1 Update 2. We experienced that Sort by Relevance in Lucene search is not working when we are using Contains, StartsWith, EndsWith, Equals, Like, and MatchWildcard operators while building the search querying _fullpath. Sample code: string sitePath = "/sitecore/content/home"; var results = SearchContext().GetQueryable<CustomResult>().Where(r => (r.Path.Contains(sitePath + "/")); So if we have... Continue Reading →
Was fortunate to attend the webinar hosted by Sitecore User Group Bangalore and presented by Ankit Joshi on 3/26/2017. Webinar was well organized and content presented by Ankit was also crisp and clear. I found it very helpful for people who are new to Sitecore xDB using MongoDB. The webinar was recorded and you can... Continue Reading →
Worked on client requirement on Sitecore 8.1 to integrate MongDB with SSL client certificate. Client had their own SHA-2 SSL certificate and wanted to integrate Mongo with Sitecore using that. Customized MongoDB Pipeline Customize the MongoDB pipeline by defining a new "updateMongoDriverSettings" pipeline in the Sitecore.Analytics.MongoDB.Config: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <configuration> <sitecore> <!--MongoDB settings node.... Continue Reading →
Are you currently using Sitecore Analytics without MongoDB? Are you planning to upgrade Sitecore to 7.5 or upper version with MongoDB? If yes, its time to decide whether you want to convert the historical data or want to go with a fresh MongoDB setup. Cause if you want the historical analytics data, you need to go... Continue Reading →
On lower environments if we want to view the ShowConfig we follow the URL mentioned below: /sitecore/admin/showconfig.aspx To access this URL the Sitecore and underneath folders should be accessible. But on Content Delivery most of the Client wants the Sitecore pages to be blocked, specially the Login and other Admin Pages. May be I am... Continue Reading →
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Versioned layouts make it possible to specify different layouts for different versions and languages of the same item. You use versioned layouts when you want to: Have different layouts for different languages. Publish a specific version with its own layout for a specific period. Sitecore uses versioned layouts internally for various content-testing features, for example,... Continue Reading →
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