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Configuring forwarding headers for ASP.NET Core Applications running behind a reverse proxy

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

We’ve been working recently on an updated version of the Sitecore MVP Website. This site has been used for the MVP application process which has just been run, and we used an external federated authentication provider to allow people to create their accounts for the application process.......

Issues utilising the Sitecore CLI against a scaled Sitecore CM instance running in AKS

Thursday, November 18, 2021

I ran into an interesting issue this week when working on the rebuild of the Sitecore MVP site. To give a bit of background, this project is a rebuild of the MVP site using Sitecore’s DotNet rendering Host and is running on AKS.......

Nginx Ingress - Breaking change, Ingress.class now required

Monday, October 11, 2021

I hit an issue today attempting to install a clean Sitecore 10.1 XM instance into a new AKS cluster. I followed the steps & instructions just the same as before, but when I went to test the sites, they all gave me a 404. This led me down a bit of a K8s Ingress debugging hole!......

Nextjs v11 - ENOENT: no such file or directory when deployed to Vercel

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Earlier today I made a few updates to the site you're ready this blog on now. Nothing too major, but one of the things I decided to do was to bump my current Nextjs version from the version I was on previously v10.0.6 to the current latest version v11.1.2. This was super simple to do complete and everything fine in my local. I pushed it out to production, and it was then things got interesting.......

Building omni-channel experience with Sitecore Experience Edge & Mobile Blazor Bindings

Wednesday, July 7, 2021

A few months ago, I read about a new release from Microsoft called Mobile Blazor Bindings and it sounded really interesting, a way to embed a Blazor application inside of a Xamarin Forms application, meaning you could leverage web tech in building out your mobile experiences, how cool is that!......

Working with the Commerce Engine & Docker in Sitecore Experience Commerce 10.1

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Recently got to work with a developer who was new to working with Sitecore Experience Commerce on Docker. Now we have a lot of examples for how to work with Sitecore Experience Platform with Docker, things like......

Next.js Incremental Static Site Regeneration and Apollo GraphQL Caching

Friday, March 12, 2021

I’ve recently been working on a project built using Next.Js & Apollo GraphQL to pull data out of Sitecore Experience Edge for Content Hub. I’ve really enjoyed working with these technologies but ran into something that stumped me for a while the other day.......

How to set the Experience Edge Auth Token with Apollo GraphQL

Wednesday, March 3, 2021

So if you've been looking through the SDK provided with both Sitecore Experience Commerce 8.2.1 and new release Sitecore Experience Commerce 9......

Multi-Environment deployments to Vercel

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

So this week I've been building a Sitecore Experience Commerce deployment in Azure. This is using mostly PaaS based resources, so WebApps, Azure SQL and all that jazz. However I wanted to try to keep the spend down a bit and the easiest way to achieve that is to switch out Azure Search for Solr......

.NET Core Rendering Host - Experience Editor 404 error

Wednesday, September 23, 2020

So we've been rebuilding the Sitecore MVP site currently, and you can see how were going as the repository is Open Source, meaning you can see how we're progressing right here.........