John Richardson http://www.thejohnrichardson.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 05 May 2009 04:01:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Forcing CSS changes to instantly go live without the pesky refresh! http://www.thejohnrichardson.com/blog/forcing-css-changes-to-instantly-go-live-without-the-pesky-refresh/ http://www.thejohnrichardson.com/blog/forcing-css-changes-to-instantly-go-live-without-the-pesky-refresh/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 04:01:44 +0000 John Richardson http://www.thejohnrichardson.com/?p=18 I recently stumbled across a great post that caught my eye. We’ve all had it happen before – our friend or colleague is swearing to us that he can’t see the changes we just made to the website. We can see it just fine!! And after wasting what seems to be an eternity trying to figure out the problem… we suddenly realize all they have to do is REFRESH THEIR CACHE!!! What if there was a way to force these CSS changes onto people? Well… turns out there is. Such a simple intuitive solution… yet… bet you didn’t think of it! Read the whole story here: Force CSS changes to “go live” immediately

]]> http://www.thejohnrichardson.com/blog/forcing-css-changes-to-instantly-go-live-without-the-pesky-refresh/feed/ 0 Permalinks with IIS – What Not To Do… http://www.thejohnrichardson.com/blog/permalinks-with-iis-what-not-to-do/ http://www.thejohnrichardson.com/blog/permalinks-with-iis-what-not-to-do/#comments Fri, 23 May 2008 14:44:30 +0000 John Richardson http://www.thejohnrichardson.com/?p=17 So I’m having an issue with Wordpress today. For some reason I can’t get a custom 404 page to actually return a valid 404 response. The first thing I do of course is go to Google and run a few searches. I can’t believe what I just came across…

"As I mentioned in a previous post, WordPress installed on IIS can be somewhat aggravating because it doesn’t have permalink functionality out of the box. You have to jump through several hoops to get it to work...

...I’ve been thinking about a possible solution to this. Would it be possible to use a custom 404 page on IIS to act as a intermediary page that does what mod_rewrite would normally...."

Possible? Yes. But should you do it? NO!!!!!

The idea of course is to use the custom error page functionality in IIS to 404 all incoming traffic, and then redirect them to a custom page. This page would then parse the URL you were looking for and redirect you to the appropriate page. Now don’t get me wrong – this is absolutely possible. The problem lies in serving a 404 Page Not Found status code for all of your pages!!! Sure you’re pages will have pretty permalinks – but no search engine will ever index your site. What’s the point!

Read what not to do here: WordPress Permalinks with Custom 404 Page

]]> http://www.thejohnrichardson.com/blog/permalinks-with-iis-what-not-to-do/feed/ 2