Scott McCulloch

Users Online change for DotNetNuke 3.2

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT

I've checked in a small change for users online in DotNetNuke 3.2 tonight.

When counting anonymous users, the code was mistakenly counting web crawlers, rss clients, etc as anonymous users.

An anonymous user is identified by assigning a GUID to that client and then giving it a cookie. Most robots/scripts don't support cookies so they were being added as a unique user on each request. A check has been added to check for cookie support before adding it as an anonymous users.

Incidently, to check for cookie support is very simple:-

if Request.Browser.Cookies then

' Do Work

end if

Friendly Url Changes for DotNetNuke 3.2

Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:00:00 GMT

I've just checked in some minor changes for Friendly URLs for DotNetNuke.

In 3.1.1, I introduced a change to only rewrite alphanumeric and the space character. (Everything else would be left in the querystring).

For example:-

http://www.dotnetnuke.comhttp://www.dotnetnuke.com/default.aspx?tabid=5&path=folder1/folder2

Becomes:-

http://www.dotnetnuke.comhttp://www.dotnetnuke.com/tabid/5/default.aspx?path=folder1/folder2

This worked as designed and helped to alleviate a number of special character issues we were having. However, it also caused some common URLs not to be rewritten, these involved the dash (-) and the underscore (_) character. These are commonly used when selecting a language. (e.g. en-AU)

So for 3.2, these characters will be rewritten into the URL. Moreover, you can also customise the regular expression in the web.config as now it belongs to the provider as an attribute as follows:-

         type="DotNetNuke.Services.Url.FriendlyUrl.DNNFriendlyUrlProvider, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewrite"
     includePageName="true"
     regexMatch="[^a-zA-Z0-9 _-]" />

Configuring Users Online for DotNetNuke

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:00:00 GMT

There has been some confusion lately about the Users Online module, this entry will attempt to provide a step by step guide on how to correctly configure it.