Fixing block rendering issues in Alloy Templates for EPiServer 7

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New Alloy templates package for EPiServer 7 is a good example of building adaptive site and using new EPiServer features like shared blocks. It implements custom content area rendering to arrange blocks in rows and fill all available space depending on current browser size. There is couple of known issues related to these rendering tricks.

EPiServer CMO in load balancing environment with separate editing server

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This blog post describes EPiServer CMO installation and configuration in a load balanced environment where CMS editing interfaces and components are not available on the front-end web servers; additional editing server is set up and attached to the same database. This kind of environment is described in this blog post as Option 2. So let’s

EPiServer CMO in load balancing environment: simple scenario

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Load balancing is a clear choice for the most of popular sites with high volumes of incoming traffic. This solution allows distributing the load among several servers to improve performance and achieve high availability. This blog post describes а simple case of EPiServer CMO installation and configuration in the hosting environment where load balancing is

EPiServer CMO components and simple installation scenario

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Running EPiServerCMO.msi you get CMO installed to EPiServer CMS module folder, by default it is C:\Program Files (x86)\EPiServer\CMS\6.1.379.0\Install\Modules\CMO2.1.0.93. Now it can be installed on specific web site using Deployment Center. Installation instructions for EPiServer CMO 2 R2 pretty well describe simple deployment model with the one front server. By default all CMO components are deployed

Solving issue “405.0 – Method Not Allowed” when accessing WebDAV folder

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Problem Using EPiServer WebDAV you can face with following issue: after setting up WebDAV in EPiServer CMS and client configuration you still cannot access your web folder. Depending on client software you can get different error messages. Windows explorer says that it cannot access your resource and suggests to check name spelling. Other clients return