Sitecore

Kicking off 2022 with a couple Radical PowerShell Scripts for Sitecore

By davidwalker

Just kicking off 2022 with a couple Radical PowerShell Scripts for Sitecore! I was working on some automation tasks and found where these scripts would be useful: Get-SitecoreSite for auto detecting where the Sitecore Site is located, ie: WWWRoot/Sitecore. If you don’t provide the site name, it will check all folders under wwwroot (or custom path you provide) for /bin/sitecore.kernel.dll. So you could easily get the 1 sitecore site you have deployed or a full list of sites (if you have more than one). Get-SitecoreVersion given path (or otherwise would call Get-SitecoreSite) then uses /sitecore/shell/sitecore.version.xml to show the actual Sitecore … Continue reading Kicking off 2022 with a couple Radical PowerShell Scripts for Sitecore

Announcing the Advanced Site Provider for Sitecore

By davidwalker

Version 1 of the Advanced Site Provider for Sitecore is now released on Github. It enables  the usage of separate sites, initially limited to sub-domains, with no configuration nor any special content items! Per the “Configuring Multiple Sites” article on the publically accessible documentation on the Sitecore Developer Network, a single Sitecore instance out of the box is multi-tenant capable and able to render multiple sites with multiple host names. However, it requires adding new sites into the sitecore/sites section of the web.config file. This causes an IIS app pool recycle, this can cause the need for extra planning in … Continue reading Announcing the Advanced Site Provider for Sitecore