Web.Config Settings

There are a number of configuration settings that need to be specified for SheerCMS to work correctly. These settings should be added to the main Web.Config file within the appSettings section.

Required Settings

CMS_SiteFilePath - Specifies the file path to the root directory of the web site, e.g. c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test_site\.

CMS_Password - Specifies the administration account password. This setting should be changed from the default value.

CMS_BaseFolder - Specifies the base folder that holds the web site, e.g. for the site http://www.abc.com/test_site/ the base folder setting would be /test_site/. This is used when generating absolute or root based URL's.

Optional Settings

CMS_FriendlyURL - Controls the FriendlyURL functionality within the site. If set to 0, the page URL's are rendered in a template, id format, e.g. template.aspx?id=1.
If set to 1 site URL's are rendered in friendly mode, where the page names are generated from the page titles.

CMS_SummaryAsDescription - Controls if a metadata description tag should be added to the page header. If set to 0 then no header is added. If set to 1, a metadata description tag is added, using the page's decription as it's contents.