Compressing pages with PB but not caching them

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eoghan o'neill
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03/07/2008 3:25 AM
This maybe very simple to do but.... ...is there any way with PB that you can set it up so that certain pages are compressed but they are not cached? I want to do this for the active Forums pages on my site - I do not want to cache them because if they are it means the Active Forum statistics are not updated when the thread is viewèd by an unauthenticated user. Thanks Eoghano

John Mitchell
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03/07/2008 7:11 AM
If you are using the DNN module then you can place a module on the page with the forums and in the configuration set the Path=.* and excludeFrom=Caching If you are using the free version then you can add an excludePath to the Snapsis.PageBlaster.config file. Assuming the name of your page is "Forum" : path pattern="forum" excludeFrom="Caching" />

eoghan o'neill
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03/08/2008 1:21 AM
John, That did the trick. Many thanks. eoghano

eoghan o'neill
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04/01/2008 2:52 PM
John, I just went back to double check this and the response headers for my forum pages are now showing the following: X-Snapsis-PageBlaster: v:2.2.4;c:m;x:+;r:+ My understanding is that the "c:m" part of that means the page is being cached in memory, but that is what I want to avoid. The text in my PB config is as follows: path pattern="discussion" excludeFrom="Caching" /> (the URL for my active forums pages contains the word 'discussion' instead of 'forum'). So any changes I need to make / ideas on what to do to ensure my active forum pages are compressed by not cached? Thanks. Eoghano

John Mitchell
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04/01/2008 3:20 PM
If your web.config has the PageBlaster module line before the UrlRewrite line in the httpModules section then you will need to use the Url as it looks with Friendly Urls turned off. Using the tabid=nnn (where nnn is the tab number) will work in that case. If you have the Pro version it is easy and will perform better if you put the module on that page instead of having the check accomplished for every request that comes through to your whole site. Also, with the module on the page you don't have to figure out how the PageBlaster module "sees" the Url.

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