Solr is used to power both operational and custom search indexes in Sitecore, but there are times in which you may want to access this data outside the normal Sitecore usage. A few examples are as follows: You may have other needs, but the bottom line is that there are a few methods to directly …
Having a unified login experience where users can leverage their social logins and other providers is a highly desired feature for member and customer-based portals. Incorporating each separate authentication and authorization service on their own is a large and implicitly costly endeavor, especially when factoring in keeping connections up to date to meet the requirements …
The React framework continues to improve its Server Side Rendering capabilities, and with React 19, is introducing Server Components to further launch into the SSR space. With this in mind, do React Server Components and SSR options replace Next.js for Sitecore XM Cloud/Vercel hosted applications? Why Do We Need Server Side Rendering In its simplest …
When leveraging Deployment Slots as laid out in the Multisite Application Initialization for Zero Downtime Azure Deployments post, an issue kept arising on swap when we would see unhealthy instances and 500 errors. Digging into this, it was found that it was not swapping in bad or un-warmed up instances, rather it was experiencing SNAT …
By default, Sitecore sets the deletion of log files to 30 days but does not recurse the deletion. This may leave logs in place older than 30 days. Here is the section of the default Sitecore.config file that houses the Sitecore.Tasks.CleanupAgent: Note that this line is missing the recursive=”true” parameter. A patch file to remediate …
Obtaining Zero Downtime Deployments using Azure PaaS for Sitecore is achievable, even with a Multisite configuration, but requires some steps to avoid 500 errors and other aspects that may place your Azure Application Service Sitecore instances into rotation before they are ready. This article assumes you: How a Swap is Supposed to Work When swapping …
Ever want custom 500 error pages but struggle as you have a multisite solution? Here are 3 steps for creating Sitecore multisite custom 500 error pages. Step 1: Create Custom 500 HTML Pages and Place in wwwroot Step 1 is to create the custom 500 html error pages you want and to place them, and …
When creating a custom Solr index, such as a Preview index tied to a new Preview database, you have two options on how to control the scope of what is indexed. Option 1: defaultSolrIndexConfiguration If you have a custom index that mirrors the out of the box web database (which is the common case when …
Came across an interesting issue today in that we kept getting the following error on a page driven by Solr results and a custom database. It kept reporting: On the surface, this looks like a missing database but this page is driven by a Solr index with a custom database that is not named “web”. …
Ever struggle with issues while working in the Sitecore Platform and don’t know where to start? Who hasn’t!… but you will be surprised to learn that most issues are not Sitecore itself. In fact, during my tenure I have found that 60-80% of the issues in a Sitecore environment are code, content, or config based …