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Hello,

I'm moving my first steps with pageblaster, and miss some basic info: how do I configure rules? ;-)

I configured a simple rule, like this:

    Test rule
   
   

Links to tabid 79 are correctly replaced with a "test.aspx" link, and all works well. But this only if I keep DNN (4.8) friendly url engine active, which I believe is the one who can map "test.aspx" because it's derived from the tab path (test/tabid/79/...).

But if I want my friendly url to become something else, say "mytestpage.aspx", what have I to do? If I change the rule to:

I get a 404 error, page is not available. I believe I should tell pageblaster where to redirect in this case, have I to put in another rule for this or am I lost at all?

Thanks for any help,

al.

Hi John,

thanks for answering. I'm testing the free module: my  replacement rule does work very well on output, but I'm a bit confused about what the pageblaster module would do.

I mean...what I meant was exposing a friendly-url with a custom name, and have all request for that url redirected to a real tabid. I can do this with a RewriterRule in siteurls.config, writing a rule such as

LookFor  .*/myfriendlyurl.aspx(.*)

SendTo  ~/default.aspx?tabid=12

where "myfriendlyurl.aspx" does not map to an existing page, but whenever I call that url I am redirected to the specified tabid. So I have to define both a rewriterule in siteurls and a replacement url for pageblaster, to have it all working (the replacement to output "myfriendlyurl.aspx" instead of the complete url, and the rewrite to handle requests)  am I right?

And does the pageblaster module do all of this, that is does it allow me to configure both rewrite and replacement rules from a browser?

Just two more questions ;-)

I unsuccessfully tried downloading source code for the free module from codeplex: isn't code available yet, or  am I just  doing something wrong with svn?

Last: a problem with AJAX and pageblaster. I use some controls from ajaxcontroltoolkit (on DNN 4.8) in a module of mine, and all (partial) postbacks stop working if I enable pageblaster. I tried the exclusion rules I found in other posts here (such as pattern="\.asxh" or .axd), but with no result. The same apparently happens with my calls to clientapi. What should I do to let ajax work with pageblaster enabled?

Thank you so much,

al.

Yes, using the SiteUrls.config file you can accomplish the same thing that the PageBlaster module does for what I call a virtual-path.  I even do it that way on my site instead of putting a PageBlaster module on every page. I just added it to the PageBlaster config to make it another feature for when you are using the PageBlaster module.  It makes it a little easier when you already have the module on a page.

I think they expired the source code on the CodePlex site when they made some changes.  I haven't really kept up with that site because there was hardly any feedback from anyone.

I didn't even know they were using svn on Codelex now.  I can get you the source code if you want to reply directly to the notification of this post.

Ajax should work. I would have to take a closer look at what is happening to understand what is happening in your situation.