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 …
If you are using Sitecore XM and your regular users don’t have access to the Personalize button when they open the Device Editor, it may be due to a permissions issue. In Sitecore XP, there is a role named “Analytics Personalization” to grant the Personalize right. In Sitecore XM (as of 10.2), it does not …
Sitecore XM Cloud, with its supporting composable ecosystem, has some compelling offerings. When leaving the worries of hosting VMs or managing PaaS behind in order to embrace flexible and scalable headless deployments, there are a few options for how to prepare for XM Cloud… bearing in mind that a careful evaluation to determine if XM …
Don’t be the organization that neglects to create and execute on a roadmap and ends up in massive technical debt. These following steps apply to non-Sitecore projects as well as Sitecore and are intended as a starting point to get your organization communicating and executing in a manner that allows for efficiency, collaboration, and staying …
Having a custom 404 page is a better experience for your users… but in a multisite setup, you may want a custom 404 that is different per site… better yet, a content managed 404! In Sitecore 10, you can use a simple add to your Site Definitions as follows (assuming you have a page named …
Upon adding additional publishing targets to an environment, the Sitecore CMS had no issues publishing items… except for Media items. In fact, it was throwing the following error since Media items are stored via Blob Storage which is different than normal Sitecore items due to the nature of media files: In double checking that the …