Hide debugging features for production systems

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Quick Tip
Use the url rewriting feature included in umbraco 3.0 to hide debugging info.

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• Chapter 1: Hide debugging features for production systems

Hide debugging features for production systems

As you may know, umbraco has a feature that allows you to see what is going on behind the scene in order to debug your templates: you can get the complete stack trace for a page by appending "?umbDebugShowTrace=true" to the page's url and you can get the list of elements (macro and fields ) that make up a page by appending "?umbDebug=true" to the page's url.

This feature cannot be turned off but, for production systems, you can easily block it by using the url rewriting feature included in umbraco 3.0:

just add

<add name="nodebug" 
    virtualUrl="(.*).aspx.*umbDebug.*" 
    rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite" 
    redirect="Application"
    destinationUrl="~$1.aspx"
    ignoreCase="true" />

in the <rewrites> section of your /config/UrlRewriting.config file and touch web.config to restart the web application.