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John Mitchell
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04/14/2008 5:26 PM  

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

 

 

OM
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04/14/2008 6:42 PM  

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" />

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Hi John, can you post a list of modules that you know need excluding?  They are mentioned in various places around your forum, but it would be nice to have an authoratative list :)  I am about to start using Live Content, so I will make sure to exclude it..


Thanks

OM

 

 

 

John Mitchell
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04/14/2008 7:30 PM  

That is the list that I know of right now.

John Mitchell
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04/14/2008 8:33 PM  

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.

mitchel.sellers
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04/19/2008 10:57 AM  
John,

I thought by placing an instance of page blaster on a page that you could set an Exclude Path and be ok for that page?

I just found out that I couldn't do that, as my Categorized Documents module broke, due to an issue when using Response.WriteFile() and one of the optimizations....

i resolved the issue by editing the Snapsis config....but shouldn't there be an easier way? If that is the only way, can you explain the purpose of the "Exclude Path" setting on a per instance basis of PageBlaster?

Mitchel Sellers
MCPD, MCTS
Director of Development
IowaComputerGurus Inc.
John Mitchell
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04/19/2008 4:55 PM  
You had the right idea about page level exclusions.
I'll look into this to make sure that Page Exclusions are still working as expected.
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