Apropos Sitecore blog: IIS 7

  • Using CloudFront CDN for Sitecore media content

    By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 23 April 2012

    Ever since I discovered that Amazon CloudFront supported custom origins I have been thinking about how it could be used in a Sitecore solution. If you set up a custom origin pointing to your website it will effectively work as a caching proxy (edge cache). This can take some of the load off your Sitecore server and give a general boost to page performance* which again could have a positive affect on your SEO ranking. URL rewriting In this… Read more ►

  • Sitecore 404 without 302

    By Kern Herskind Nightingale, 27 March 2012

    As I recently migrated the "Apropos Sitecore" blog from Typepad to Sitecore I put some effort in to setting up legacy URL rewriting. In case I missed anything I wanted to ensure that the 404 handling on the new blog was set up appropriately. I have always felt that the default way Sitecore handles 404 request was a bit annoying. If a users misspells a URL or perhaps misses out a couple of characters when copying a URL they will be redirected… Read more ►

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