Entries for 'Andrew Hoefling'

Hosting apps in the cloud is common practice due to it's ease of use and performance that smaller organizations may not have on their own. Why not host DNN in the cloud? If you follow our guide here you can be up and running in Microsoft's Azure Web App in a matter of minutes.

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DNN 9.2 introduces many new features including new routing controls for MVC Modules. Now, when building a MVC Module you can easily Redirect routes between Controllers and Actions at the Controller level. This new feature introduces flexibility that adds feature parity with Microsoft’s MVC implementation. With this change a MVC Module can contain many controllers and actions per controller that handle the complex routing scenarios associated with MVC development. Prior to 9.2 developers were limited to having one controller. While there were workarounds to this limitation until now there wasn’t an elegant way to handle routing in a MVC Module.

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I was helping my friend Clint Patterson deploy a new DNN website and recommended that we enforce HTTPS even though for the small website he really didn’t need it. With the ease of tools such as CloudFlare it is really easy to set up and enforce https which not only makes your site secure but makes your users feel comfortable with the lock icon displaying in the browser.

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