Tips to optimize the performance of Umbraco powered websites
Umbraco is a popular, ASP.NET powered, content management system (CMS). Even though it performs pretty well, here are 11+ optimization tips for Umbraco on IIS.
(more…)Windows Server
Umbraco: Route example.com to www.example.com
URL Routing in Umbraco, how to redirect your website hostname in Umbraco from https://example.com to https://www.example.com.
By default, Umbraco listens to both http://example.com and http://www.example.com. This is not good for your Google ranking and SEO, since this will be seen as duplicate content. Fortunately, it is pretty easy to redirect your website to it’s www variant. Here is how to accomplish this.
(more…)Misc
Decoupling Umbraco from your front-end website
Jason Deacon, from Australia’s design and development company Wiliam, writes about how to use a back-end instance of Umbraco 7, which is completely decoupled from the front-end (an ASP.NET MVC 5 site).
SQL Server
Configure SQLServer sessionState for Umbraco
How to configure Umbraco SQLServer sessionState storage for your sessions. Prepare your Umbraco website for high performance web garden or web farm, and load balancing environments; Store your sessions out-of-process (OutProc). As opposed to the default in-process (inProc) sessions, where sessions are saved in the worker process.
(more…)Misc
Umbraco doesn’t like users with MySQL databases
Umbraco 6.0.2 fails when using MySQL, because Umbraco has changed their database layer/logic, breaking MySQL support. Because SqlCe is deprecated by Microsoft it is best to use SQL Server instead as your Umbraco database back-end.
(more…)Code base
Umbraco CMS admin password reset
If you forgot your Umbraco admin password, use the following SQL query to reset your Umbraco admin password in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) or MySQL…
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