Sign in Register
Copied to clipboard

Flag this post as spam?

This post will be reported to the moderators as potential spam to be looked at


  • Nigel Wilson 939 posts 2061 karma points
    Feb 29, 2012 @ 22:35
    Nigel Wilson
    0

    External appsettings / web.config

    Hi there

    Just seeking some feedback.

    I am at the start of a project whereby I am looking to create a prepackaged website solution within Umbraco.

    The prepackaged solution will contain a range of configuration settings and I would prefer to keep these outside of the web.config file.

    I have just read that you can add a "file" attribute to appSettings - so as a test I tried the following:

    <appSettings file="~/config/mycustomconfig.config">

        ...
    </appSettings>

    I removed the umbracoDbDsn key from web.config and placed in "mycustomconfig.config" as follows:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    <appSettings>
      <add key="umbracoDbDSN" value="..." />
    </appSettings>

    This however failed - the database connection couldn't be read.

    In terms of the database I am happy to keep it in the web.config - it was just a simple test to see if/how this might work.

    However for other application settings will this work within an Umbraco environment ?

    I am in the early stages and so have not yet put together a test user control to try and output a custom setting - this is a logical next step, however thought some constructive feedback from "those who are smarter than me" might assist me in heading down a better path.

    Cheers

    Nigel

    Copy Link
  • Tom Fulton 2030 posts 4996 karma points c-trib
    Feb 29, 2012 @ 22:45
    Tom Fulton
    0

    Hi Nigel,

    I haven't tried this but you might try using <appSettings configSource="config\mycustomconfig.config" />, then duplicating the <appSettings> section there.

    This is how I achieve it in the Structure Extensions package and it works like a treat:  <StructureExtensions configSource="config\StructureExtensions.config" />

    More info from google:  Using configSource to split configuration files

    HTH,
    Tom

    Copy Link
  • Nigel Wilson 939 posts 2061 karma points
    Feb 29, 2012 @ 23:09
    Nigel Wilson
    1

    Hi Tom

    Thanks for the lightning fast response - appreciate the input.

    Unfortunately "configSource" doesn't seem to work..

    I have got it to work using the following:

    <appSettingsfile="config\mycustomconfig.config">
    ...
    </appSettings>

    And then naturally the following worked fine.

    testoutput.Text = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["nigelTest"].ToString()

    So maybe I should have tried this first before posting, but maybe someone will stumble across this and it will help out when figuring out the best way to record some config settings. I know I could have used this knowledge 2 years ago on a site.

    Cheers

    Nigel

    Copy Link

  • This forum is in read-only mode while we transition to the new forum.

    You can continue this topic on the new forum by tapping the "Continue discussion" link below.

Please Sign in or register to post replies