Thanks to being dragged out of bed at some stupid time on Friday to fix a publishing problem, I was reminded of our wonderous wiki post about killing publishes. I thought it might be a good idea to write a post with all the different ways we know of saving yourself and your server.
Thanks to those side track posts, Adrian has beaten me to writing some of the articles on my list, plus a few additional ones. Now I need to think of some new ones.
You all know about the “in smartEdit” and “Not in smartEdit” options you have. Adrian explains what to do when you don’t want [...]
There are a number of reasons why clearing your page cache can be necessary, mostly during a development cycle where you’re repeatedly publishing out the same pages, or need a site wide change to take place. Normally this isn’t a proble, thanks to the nice “Clear page cache” button.
But sometimes it all becomes horribly stuck, timing [...]
No-one seems to be able to give us a straight answer for this question. Reddot are suitably vague and other agencies we’ve spoken to all have their own preferences for when to use it… so this is what we’ve worked out over time.
What is a language variant?
A language variant is a copy of your site, [...]
If you’re seeing Reddot doing something odd with your pages… clear your page cache and navigation cache (if you’re using navigation manager) first. We’ve seen too many instances of it being the sole problem.
The sort of things we have seen this resolve is blank pages, or asp code turning up when it should be pre-executing.