Ghostable and Unghostable Pages

Question

What are Ghostable and Unghostable Pages? Is there a listof pages which are Ghostable and Unghostable? How would I know whether a page is Ghostable or unghostable? If we just add a document to a Ghostable Page, will it be called as Unghostable?

Answer 1

Ghosted pages (unCustomized): the Pages that stored on File System like

• Application Pages.
• The default home page
• Site Definition pages.

Unghosted pages (Customized) : the pages that stored in SharePoint Content Database

• SitePages like [Add/display/edit].
• Custom Master Pages.

Note : All the Unghosted sites are based on Ghosted Site Definition.

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