Adding my own page to a subtext application

Question

I've just installed subtext and am intending on hosting on discountasp.net. I want to add my own pages to the application (just 3) but if I add a standard aspx I get a 404. I'd ideally like to have a masterpage that uses some of the list controls in subtext so I can keep a list of Recent Posts and Archive on the side bar. It's an ideal, otherwise I could create a couple of my own controls to drop into the page to replicate IF that's not possible.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Note: This applies to Subtext 2.1.2 and below

You'll need to add a handler mapping in web.config. Subtext tries to handle all requests.

The easiest thing to do is to create a directory where you want all your custom pages to live and map a PageHandlerFactory for that directory.

For example, search for the following in web.config

<add verb="*" path="HostAdmin/*.aspx" type="System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory"/>

And add the following line after

<add verb="*" path="custompages/*.aspx" type="System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory"/>

In the upcoming Subtext 2.5, you won't need to do this. You can simply drop your page anywhere in a directory and it'll just work.

Answer 2

Thanks for the info - how would you add a link to this new page - or even an existing page. I would like to create a page for all image galleries, then create a link to that page along with the "login" or "admin" link.