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Follow sites SharePoint 2013

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Just a few small steps and the issue will be solved!!!! following day i ran into a issue where i need to follow a site updates i.e. receive content, site or documents updates from news feeds.

Follow SharePoint Site

Follow SharePoint Site

Surprisingly when i clicked on Follow link i got an error stating SOMETHING WENT WRONG.

follow site in sharepoint something went wrong error

follow site in sharepoint something went wrong error

Obviously i searched and got some interesting links to solve the issues
when u follow a document you will get updates from News feed if the item was updated.

follow site sharepoint error

follow site sharepoint error

However, there are two important site features that need to be activated in order to have this functionality available.
Following content : this makes the site available to be followed (star icon will appear on the top right part of the screen)
Site Feed: this makes the site show up as a “channel” when you are posting something from the newsfeed web part. There is also a web part, called “Site Feeds” which comes with this feature.

 
Although some site templates already have these features enabled (e.g. : Team Site), they have to be manually activated for a Blank Site or a Publishing Site.
A simple usage scenario for following sites would be like this:

  • Create a new site collection
  • Activate the required features at site level
  • Create a new page
  • Add the “Site Feeds” web part to the page.

Blank page when you visit web site sharepoint2010

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When you use a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) or a custom host header to visit a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Web site or a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Web site from the server that is hosting the Web site, you receive a blank page.

Note You only receive a blank page if you try to visit the Web site directly from the server. If you visit the Web site from a client computer, you can view the Web site.

Cause :

This problem occurs when the Web site uses Windows Integrated Authentication and the Web site has a name that is mapped to the local loop back address.

Solution :

To work around this problem, disable the loop back check or specify host names.

External access gives blank home page SharePoint 2013

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I’ve created a site that serves as a service portal. It requires a customer to login, so when accessing the home page, when not authenticated, you’ll get redirected to the login page. On the site anonymous access is enabled as the customers don’t need to login to SharePoint itself.

When I access the home page from the localhost or any other machine in the intranet everything works fine. (Going to http://sharepoint/ and this will automatically redirect to http://sharepoint/SitePages/Home.aspx)

When trying to access the SharePoint from the outside e.g. http://helpdesk.company.com. I get the following page: http://helpdesk.company.com/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/SitePages/Home.aspx.

This page appears to be empty and when clicking the Home link, I remain on this page.

When I remove /_layouts/15/start.aspx# from the URL it navigates to the correct page where I putted my web parts.

Does anyone know why its behaving like this?

Solution:

i think what it is related to Minimal Download Strategy feature.

Its purpose is to speed things up by loading as little resources as possible.
Minimal download strategy (MDS) is new web technology used in SharePoint 2013 to save the bandwidth traffic and quick render the pages to the clients.

MDS technique use a single .aspx page (/_Layouts/start.aspx) for your pages, with the actual URL encoded in the text following the hashmark (‘#’).

When navigating from page to page, only the changes between two compatible pages will be downloaded. Fewer bytes will be downloaded and the page will appear more quickly and avoid calling the server to download objects.

To enable and disable the feature:

Site settings > under Site Actions section > manage site feature

minimal download strategy

minimal download strategy