I am using “Publish web Site” which copies almast all content of the development site including Portals\0\portal.css file.
Then when DNN Installer tries to create a new portal, it fails with
“Error: The file 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\DNNWebOpac\Portals\0\portal.css' already exists.“
and doesn't create portal alias.
Any attempts to open the site failed with
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings.GetPortalSettings(Int32 TabId, PortalAliasInfo objPortalAliasInfo)
The code actually tries to delete content of the new portal via call to DeleteFolderRecursive,
but all delete errors are catched silently - not a good way to investigate the problem.
The actual reason was that I didn't add write permissins to NETWORK_SERVICES. Error should hint about this.
I've added in Components\Shared\Globals.vb DeleteFolderRecursive function reporting errors to Trace
Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(
"DeleteFolderRecursive file " & strFile & " " & ex.ToString())Iv'e logged a suggestion to DNN Support
posted @ Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:54 PM