diff --git a/src/Subtext.Framework/Configuration/BlogConfigurationSettings.cs b/src/Subtext.Framework/Configuration/BlogConfigurationSettings.cs
index 9a795d044..730b5108c 100644
--- a/src/Subtext.Framework/Configuration/BlogConfigurationSettings.cs
+++ b/src/Subtext.Framework/Configuration/BlogConfigurationSettings.cs
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ public class BlogConfigurationSettings
     {
         private Tracking _tracking;
         private NameValueCollection _allowedHtmlTags;
+        private NameValueCollection _nonBlogPages;
 
         public BlogConfigurationSettings()
         {
@@ -97,6 +98,24 @@ public Tracking Tracking
         public int GalleryImageThumbnailWidth { get; set; }
         public int GalleryImageThumbnailHeight { get; set; }
 
+        public bool HostAdminLinkEnabled
+        {
+            get
+            {
+                if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ShowHostAdminLink"]))
+                {
+                    return true;
+                }
+
+                bool enabled;
+                if (bool.TryParse(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ShowHostAdminLink"], out enabled))
+                {
+                    return enabled;
+                }
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets a value indicating whether invisible captcha enabled.  This is 
         /// configured within the "InvisibleCaptchaEnabled" app setting. It is not 
@@ -142,5 +161,24 @@ public NameValueCollection AllowedHtmlTags
                 return _allowedHtmlTags;
             }
         }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Returns a <see cref="NameValueCollection"/> containing a list 
+        /// of page names that are not to be parsed as a request for a blog entry.
+        /// The key contains the file name and the value contains a short description about the page
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <value>The static file names.</value>
+        [XmlIgnore]
+        public NameValueCollection NonBlogPages
+        {
+             get
+            {
+                if (_nonBlogPages == null)
+                {
+                    _nonBlogPages = ((NameValueCollection)(ConfigurationManager.GetSection("NonBlogPages")));
+                }
+                return _nonBlogPages;
+            }
+        }
     }
 }
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diff --git a/src/Subtext.Framework/Web/HttpModules/BlogRequest.cs b/src/Subtext.Framework/Web/HttpModules/BlogRequest.cs
index e4812209a..53d975f97 100644
--- a/src/Subtext.Framework/Web/HttpModules/BlogRequest.cs
+++ b/src/Subtext.Framework/Web/HttpModules/BlogRequest.cs
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ private static bool IsStaticFileRequest(HttpRequestBase request)
                    || filePath.EndsWith(".txt", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
                    || filePath.EndsWith(".html", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
                    || filePath.EndsWith(".htm", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
-                   || filePath.Contains("/images/", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+                   || filePath.Contains("/images/", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)
+                   || Config.Settings.NonBlogPages.Get(request.FilePath.Substring(1))!=null;
         }
 
         private static bool IsEmbeddedResource(HttpRequestBase request)
diff --git a/src/Subtext.Web/Web.config b/src/Subtext.Web/Web.config
index f4e8bae25..6ed31212f 100644
--- a/src/Subtext.Web/Web.config
+++ b/src/Subtext.Web/Web.config
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
     <section name="Email" type="Subtext.Extensibility.Providers.ProviderSectionHandler, Subtext.Extensibility" requirePermission="false" />
     <section name="BlogEntryEditor" type="Subtext.Extensibility.Providers.ProviderSectionHandler, Subtext.Extensibility" requirePermission="false" />
     <section name="AllowableCommentHtml" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />
+    <section name="NonBlogPages" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />
     <section name="FriendlyUrlSettings" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />
     <section name="EnclosureMimetypes" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" requirePermission="false" />
     <section name="FullTextSearchEngineSettings" type="Subtext.Framework.Util.XmlSerializerSectionHandler, Subtext.Framework" requirePermission="false" />
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@
   <!-- Change the connectionStringName AppSetting to switch from one database to another. -->
   <connectionStrings>
     <clear />
-    <add name="subtextData" connectionString="Server=.\SQLEXPRESS;Database=SubtextData;Trusted_Connection=True;User Instance=false;" />
+    <add name="subtextData" connectionString="Server=.\SQLEXPRESS;Database=SubtextData;Trusted_Connection=True;User Instance=false;" />    
   </connectionStrings>
   <FullTextSearchEngineSettings type="Subtext.Framework.Configuration.FullTextSearchEngineSettings, Subtext.Framework">
     <Parameters>
@@ -57,6 +58,15 @@
     <add key="sub" value="" />
     <add key="code" value="" />
   </AllowableCommentHtml>
+  
+  <!--
+    This section contains information about the pages which are to be considered as static file, and should be ignored by the blog parser.
+    The value attribute is to summarize about the purpose of the page
+  -->
+  <NonBlogPages>
+    <add key="rss2.aspx" value="" />
+  </NonBlogPages>
+  
   <!--
         This section contains a set of key / values pairs to:
         1 - define the default mimetypes available in the dropdown list
@@ -126,7 +136,7 @@
   -->
   <SyndicationCompression type="gzip" level="high" />
   <BlogConfigurationSettings type="Subtext.Framework.Configuration.BlogConfigurationSettings, Subtext.Framework">
-    <Tracking enableAggBugs="true" enableWebStats="true" queueStats="true" queueStatsCount="5" enableTrackBacks="true" enablePingBacks="true" pingWeblogs="true" />
+    <Tracking enableAggBugs="true" enableWebStats="false" queueStats="true" queueStatsCount="5" enableTrackBacks="true" enablePingBacks="true" pingWeblogs="true" />
     <!--	
       Checkout Subtext.Framework.Security for hashing passwords.  
       This should be set when first installing the application 
@@ -214,6 +224,10 @@
     <add key="CommCreditAffiliateCode" value="SC145233" />
     <add key="CommCreditAffiliateKey" value="SBT145$3_" />
     <add key="FeedBurnerUrl" value="http://feedproxy.google.com/" />
+    <!--
+      Show or hide the admin link in, for now, the BlogNotActive.aspx page
+    -->
+    <add key="ShowHostAdminLink" value="true"/>
   </appSettings>
   <system.web>
     <!-- You might need to change the value of this next item to Medium or 
diff --git a/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx b/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx
index 4b0fdbc2f..d41c51898 100644
--- a/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx
+++ b/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 	<asp:PlaceHolder id="plcInactiveBlogMessage" runat="server" Visible="false">
 		<p>
 			For whatever reason, this blog is no longer active.  It can be reactivated by 
-			a host admin from the <a href="~/HostAdmin/" id="hostAdminLink" runat="server">Host Admin Tool</a>.
+			a host admin<span id="spanHostAdmin" runat="server"> from the <a href="~/HostAdmin/" id="hostAdminLink" runat="server">Host Admin Tool</a></span>.
 		</p>
 	</asp:PlaceHolder>
 	
diff --git a/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx.cs b/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx.cs
index d602f1f97..42ab281d9 100644
--- a/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx.cs
+++ b/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx.cs
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
                 lnkBlog.HRef = Url.BlogUrl();
             }
             base.OnLoad(e);
+            spanHostAdmin.Visible = Subtext.Framework.Configuration.Config.Settings.HostAdminLinkEnabled;
         }
     }
 }
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diff --git a/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx.designer.cs b/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx.designer.cs
index 3992aac56..b90be8b59 100644
--- a/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx.designer.cs
+++ b/src/Subtext.Web/aspx/SystemMessages/BlogNotActive.aspx.designer.cs
@@ -1,20 +1,17 @@
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // <auto-generated>
 //     This code was generated by a tool.
-//     Runtime Version:2.0.50727.3074
 //
 //     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
-//     the code is regenerated.
+//     the code is regenerated. 
 // </auto-generated>
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-namespace Subtext.Web
-{
-
-
-    public partial class BlogNotActive
-    {
-
+namespace Subtext.Web {
+    
+    
+    public partial class BlogNotActive {
+        
         /// <summary>
         /// plcInactiveBlogMessage control.
         /// </summary>
@@ -23,7 +20,16 @@ public partial class BlogNotActive
         /// To modify move field declaration from designer file to code-behind file.
         /// </remarks>
         protected global::System.Web.UI.WebControls.PlaceHolder plcInactiveBlogMessage;
-
+        
+        /// <summary>
+        /// spanHostAdmin control.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <remarks>
+        /// Auto-generated field.
+        /// To modify move field declaration from designer file to code-behind file.
+        /// </remarks>
+        protected global::System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlGenericControl spanHostAdmin;
+        
         /// <summary>
         /// hostAdminLink control.
         /// </summary>
@@ -32,7 +38,7 @@ public partial class BlogNotActive
         /// To modify move field declaration from designer file to code-behind file.
         /// </remarks>
         protected global::System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlAnchor hostAdminLink;
-
+        
         /// <summary>
         /// plcNothingToSeeHere control.
         /// </summary>
@@ -41,7 +47,7 @@ public partial class BlogNotActive
         /// To modify move field declaration from designer file to code-behind file.
         /// </remarks>
         protected global::System.Web.UI.WebControls.PlaceHolder plcNothingToSeeHere;
-
+        
         /// <summary>
         /// lnkBlog control.
         /// </summary>