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August 30, 2024 / Sitecore

Do React Server Components and SSR Options Replace Next.js for Sitecore?

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 …

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July 26, 2024 / Sitecore

SNAT Port Exhaustion in Sitecore Azure Paas Instances

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 …

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June 26, 2024 / Sitecore

Sitecore Quick Tip: Recursively Delete Old Log Files

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 …

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July 26, 2024 / Sitecore

Multisite Application Initialization for Zero Downtime Azure Deployments

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 …

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April 8, 2024 / Sitecore

3 Easy Steps for Sitecore Multisite Custom 500 Error Pages

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 …

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April 3, 2024 / Sitecore

Sitecore 10 Configuration Reference in Custom Solr Collections

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 …

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March 4, 2024 / Sitecore

Sitecore Quicktip: Could not find configuration node may be a Solr issue

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”. …

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February 29, 2024 / Sitecore

Sitecore Troubleshooting 101: How to Get Out of Trouble

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 …

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January 17, 2024 / Sitecore

Non Admins Can’t View Personalize Button in Sitecore XM

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 …

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December 23, 2023 / Sitecore

3 Options to Prepare for Sitecore XM Cloud

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 …

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