Hi John,

I just bought the PageBlaster module. I have a question: I seem to remember that I read somewhere (in this forum I believe) that there was an issue with the image rotator module in DNN and PageBlaster. I seem to remember that you recommended to disable compression on it.
I tried the forum search but it throws an exception, so I can't search for anything.
So without finding the post, can you please let me know:
- if what I remember is true, how do I exclude the image rotator from compression?
- do I need to disable the inbuilt DNN compression prior to (or after) installing PageBlaster?
- I have already installed iFinity Friendly URL, is there a problem or there is full compatibility between the two?
- Finally, I would like to add some redirect (301) rules from the former links (as initially I setup iFinity to use underscores in the URLs) to the current setting (now my links are using hyphens), is from www.mysite.com/local_page/defaults.aspx to www.mysite.com/local-page/default.aspx. Can you please give me a hint if and how I can do this in PageBlaster?

Thanks,
Edmond
Taximise Pty Ltd

Hi Edmond,
Thanks for purchasing.

--If the problem is that the image rotator module is not "rotating", then this is because of caching, not compression. The only way to make it rotate is to exclude the page that it is on from caching. You can do this by putting the module on the page in question and setting the exclude in the configuration. That does kind of defeat the purpose of PageBlaster though (especially if the module is on several pages), so a better solution is to use some kind of Ajax ad rotator.

--PageBlaster comments the Core compression module automatically on install.

--Ifinity Url Master and PageBlaster are fully compatible.

I'm not sure why you would want to use PageBlaster for 301 redirection if you have Url Master, but to do a 301 redirect like you described you would put a rewrite rule in the /DesktopModules/Snapsis/PageBlaster/Config/ResourceLocationTable.config file like this:

<resourceLocationItem
virtual-path="(.*?)_(.*?)"
url="$1-$2"
method="PermanentRedirect" isPattern="True" />

The above rule will only work on the first underscore found by switching it to a dash and doing a permanent redirect (301).