Himmat Singh Dulawat (3x Sitecore MVP)

In the continuation of my previous blog Steps to be Performed after Multisite Configuration, I am going to discuss two important functionalities in terms of Google search crawling ranking and every website core functionality which are Sitemap and Robots txt implementation.  Create a new Template with two fields Sitemap and Robots. Inherit the above template on the Home page template of both Site nodes. Create a patch file: This patch file will have one pre-processor to allow the URL extension for XML and Txt files and another processor in the httpRequestBegin pipeline to serve Sitemap and Robots txt files. Create a class in your project for the custom processor and use the below code Deploy your application and browse pages: Website-a.com/sitemap.xml Website-b.com/sitemap.xml Website-a.com/robots.txt Website-b.com/ robots.txt If you want to implement the same functionality using A...

After upgrading the solution to Sitecore version 10.2, I have started facing the Value that cannot be a null error. More details log and error you can find below: After investigating this issue, I have found that this is a known issue in Sitecore and Sitecore described the solution here Retrieving the child items of resource items is not thread-safe . But as we were on Sitecore XM instead of the XP version, so will it work for XM? Yes, the cumulative hotfix works for XM as well, so do not be confused with it. Note: This hotfix is a Cumulative hotfix and does not use the installation wizard to install it. Such hotfixes are not intended to be installed using the Installation wizard. Instead, you need to refer to the following articles describing by Sitecore, how to install the hotfixes for OnPrem and PaaS instances: Install a Sitecore XP pre-release using SIF Deploy a Sitecore XP pre-release to a PaaS solution But I h...