Question

I cant seem to get mobile detection working. I added the following “mobile” web.config changes:

<site name="mobile" hostName="m.localhost" device="mobile" virtualFolder="/" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" htmlCacheSize="10MB" registryCacheSize="0" viewStateCacheSize="0" xslCacheSize="5MB" filteredItemsCacheSize="2MB" enablePreview="true" enableWebEdit="true" enableDebugger="true" disableClientData="false" />

<site name="website" virtualFolder="/" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" htmlCacheSize="10MB" registryCacheSize="0" viewStateCacheSize="0" xslCacheSize="5MB" filteredItemsCacheSize="2MB" enablePreview="true" enableWebEdit="true" enableDebugger="true" disableClientData="false" /> 

I also added a new device called “Mobile” to the device list. From what I understand if someone visits m.localhost (dev URL, yes I know) no matter the device I would expect it to use the “Mobile” device presentation. It’s not, its using the standard one. If I specify sc_device=mobile it does load the “Mobile” device layout. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

You should check a few things:

• The setting may be case-sensitive, try capitalizing Mobile in the device attribute
• Ensure the device is published
• Ensure when you hit the URL, that you are getting the correct site — try outputting Sitecore.Context.Site.Name or use a tool like Glimpse to debug. If you’re not, make sure you have an exact host name match and that the mobile site appears first in your sites list.
• Perhaps try the defaultDevice attribute instead of the device attribute on the site