PageBlaster testing on my site....

Hi John,

I have download PageBlaster and installed it on my site. (Chinese-Traditional)

Current it work fine, but I want to do more test and have some question..

I see you mention DNN core compression should disable when using PageBlaster, could you tell me where to disable it?

And I also found someone said keep site alive can let first connection become much faster. (Dues to do not initial ASP.NET again.)

Do you know how to do this?

When I install the page blaster this time, I found there is a step different than the Snapsis.PageBlaster.ReadMeFirst.txt. I don't find the

The following lines will automatically be added to the [httpmodules] section of your web.config file
[add name="PageBlaster" type="Snapsis.HttpModules.PageBlaster.PageBlasterModule, Snapsis.HttpModules.PageBlaster"]
[!-- [add verb="*" path="*.css,*.js,*.gif,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png"
type="Snapsis.HttpModules.PageBlaster.StaticFileHandler, Snapsis.HttpModules.PageBlaster" /] --]

in the web.config. Is this corrent?

For more testing, is it possible to turn on/off page blaster in the setting page?

Thank you for your great help~~~

Eric

Hi Eric,

I'm glad it is working for you. To remove the core compression you need to comment out or remove the core compression module from the httpModules section of web.config.

PageBlaster should have mad this change when you installed it, but if not, then you can do it manually.Rmove this line in web.config:

< add name="Compression" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Compression.CompressionModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules" />

My best recommendation for a keep-alive is to get an external monitoring service to monitor your site every 15 minutes.

There is a free website monitoring service here http://www.montastic.com/

I'm not sure what happened in your install, but if the automatic updates did not work then you can include the PageBlaster line manually in the httpModules section.

        < add name="PageBlaster" type="Snapsis.HttpModules.PageBlaster.PageBlasterModule, Snapsis.HttpModules.PageBlaster" />

If you want to completely disable PageBlaster you can remove that same line from the web.config, or you can update the Snapsis.PageBlaster.config file in the root of your website to have an excludePath like this:

< path pattern=".*" excludeFrom="All" />

Hi John,
Currently I have test many site with pageblaster. Generally, the average loading time improve about 20~30%....Thank you~
But one of my site met a problem....The file under repository model met some problem when download it. The file size become 0 when user download.
They will restore to normal status when I turn PageBlaster off. Could you give me some idea about what happened?
Thank you~~

ps: I found the post will filter html tag directly, so I convert some tag to display the original code of my first post.

This line still in the new PageBlaster version.

[add name="PageBlaster" type="Snapsis.HttpModules.PageBlaster.PageBlasterModule, Snapsis.HttpModules.PageBlaster"]

[!--  [add verb="*" path="*.css,*.js,*.gif,*.jpg,*.jpeg,*.png"
      type="Snapsis.HttpModules.PageBlaster.StaticFileHandler, Snapsis.HttpModules.PageBlaster" /] --]  ==> This line is disappeared....

You probably need to exclude the Repository module.  In the Snapsis.PageBlaster.config file you can add repository to the main list of exclusions:

< path pattern="(Repository|/admin/|/host/|LinkClick|SiteMap|rss|captcha|install|thumb|\.ashx|\.asmx)" excludeFrom="All" />

Hi,

I have try it, but seems not working...

Attached file is the Snapsis.PageBlaster.config I download from the website root.

I have try in several time.....PageBlaster On->Off->On->Off->On->Off ..... I still need to turn off PageBlaster to make the download work....

Could you help me to check what happened?

Eric

I went to you site to see what may be wrong, and I think it is because of the URL encoding.

You'll probably need to exclude it by tabid instead.

Take that other line out and try this:
< path pattern="tabid(=|/)161" excludeFrom="All" />

Change 161 above to the actual tabid of the page with the repository on it.

This one is even better for excluding a specific tab 161:

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

And if you want to add more tabs to the exclusion you would just add them in like this:

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