There have been frequent questions on how to exclude requests from PageBlaster so I thought I would start this thread on common exclusions that can be used.

The following Highlighted exclusion paths have an extra space at the start so that the node will display properly in the forum.

Some common applications that may need excluding are in the DesktopModules folder. You could just exclude everything in DesktopModules like this:

< path pattern="DesktopModules" excludeFrom="All" />

However, that will disable some of the optimizations that PageBlaster does automatically so you may want to create a pattern that excludes everything in the DesktopModules folder except for DesktopModules/Snapsis like this:

 < path pattern="DesktopModules(?!Snapsis)" excludeFrom="All" />

Taking that a little further you can also add more module folders that you want to "exclude from this exclusion" like this:

< path pattern="DesktopModules(?!Snapsis|Xmod|ActiveForums)" excludeFrom="All" />

The more you make exceptions inside the exclusion, the more work PageBlaster will have to do on every request to determin if the request should be excluded, so you may want to only exclude specific modules as they give you trouble:

< path pattern="DraggableDynamicForm|AliveMP3|UltraPhotoGallery|LiveContent" excludeFrom="All" />

To exclude by specific tabid you can create a path with this pattern:

< path pattern=" tabid(/|=)(161|162|163)(?!\d)" excludeFrom="All" />

The above pattern will exclude tabs 161,162, & 163, but will not exclude 1611

That is the list that I know of right now.

I just thought of another one:  ListX

You don't want to put a big list of these modules in your excludes if you are not using them though.

Well i may have solved the problem, i just added RadEditor into the exclusions and the editor seems to be working fine. John is this the best way to handle it?

<pathexcludefrom="All"pattern="UltraPhotoGallery|LiveContent|RadEditor">path>

Adam

OK... silly question here. Where do I add these path patterns?

ActiveForums stopped working after adding PB (gets a nasty error) and I couldn't find any reference to "path patterns" or "exclusions" in the reference manual. Maybe I'm just looking too hard?

Anyhow, I'd like to exclude ActiveForums using the path pattern tag, but I simply don't know where to put this rule.

Thanks,
Rick

Rick,

You are on the right path, just in the wrong place for where you want to put that exclusion.
In the root of your site, look for "Snapsis.PageBlaster.config" and open it with your favorite editor or notepad, then add your line in there.

You may already have a line for excludes, and if that's the case, you can just add to it.

FYI,

You can also add PB as a module to the page you want to exclude and set custom values per module instance, per page.

Since the DotNetNuke banner module puts the banner html code into the output of the page you have to exclude the page from being cached by PageBlaster or reduce the time that it is cached and then the banner will rotate when the cache expires.

To get around this, you would need a banner module that uses Ajax or Dhtml technology to rotate the banner from the client.

Excluding SlideShow should do it:

< path pattern="SlideShow" excludeFrom="All />

It might also be the .ashx file which should allready be in the list of excludes, but if not then

< path pattern="\.ashx" excludeFrom="All />