Umbraco’s Public Access is a great feature, but it is not very suitable in some cases. For example if you are working on a site with multiple environments like Development, Staging and Production, you might find some obstacles: The Public Access settings are stored in ~/App_Data/access.config and not in the Read more…
When you develop an Umbraco website with custom controller you might need a way to specify custom error pages. For example a 404 or 500 page that can be easily displayed as an action result. In my case I have multiple site roots and each site has its own error Read more…
This is another post, which uses Umbraco’s Request Pipeline to customize the backoffice – see my other post Using Umbraco’s Request Pipeline to Conceal Nodes. In some cases it is very useful to be able to use folders in Umbraco’s backoffice to group content pages without affecting the URL – I Read more…
With its 6.1 release, Umbraco got some new API’s, which allow developers to tap in the logic that parses the URLs and retrieves content nodes – the Request Pipeline. Recenlty I had a use case where I needed to conceal nodes from being rendered. Consider the following sample site structure: Read more…