I am new to this IBM portal 5.0 personilization.
I have created new theme by copying the already existing theme in IBM Websphere portal 5.0 and named it as Mytheme. And i made this theme as poratl default(This is the mistake i have done). And i verified all pages, that whether all the pages getting reflected. at that time i was able to change the theme default settings to from the existing theme and newly created theme. because i was logged into the portal.
Today i tried to access the portal and it doesn't show me anything in the content area(Portlets are not shown).It is not showing login portlet. so couldn't login as administrator. Not able to change anything..
Could anybody help me to resolve this issue. i have to revert my changes. All configurations are stored in Oracle DB.
Any idea to resolve this issue.
You will need to use xmlAccess to correct your problem. This other question looks offer a solution for you.
WebSphere Portal 6.1 default theme deleted
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Hello I'm having some issues with accessing my wp-admin after migrating a website onto a Chinese server.
I used WP Migrate DB plugin to ensure all mentions of my old domain was replaced with the new domain.
I deactivated plugins, changed the theme, created a new admin user, checked user roles and a few other possible solutions that I can't recall at this time.
Looking for general ideas on how to resolve this that I might not have tried.
Thanks
I have configured remote search and configured the collections. When in default theme, if I search I can see the search results in the search center. However when in custom theme when I search I see search-results.html page not found error. Could some one point me to resources to debug this issue for version 6 and version 8 of websphere portal. Also I want to show search results of external application like Alfresco using portal 8.
Given that the search results can be seen in the default theme, but not in the custom theme using the same portlet, it seems that the issue is with the custom theme itself.
Make sure that all the necessary DOJO modules and configuration is included in your theme by comparing the HTML page and resource loading (e.g. using fiddler or firebug), and compare with the original theme. Check for any javascript errors or 404s during the page load.
Here are some theme-related troubleshooting guides:
Collecting Data: Problems with modular-based themes in WebSphere Portal
Troubleshooting Web 2.0 issues in Portal 6.1
Deploying Custom Portal 8 Themes - Step By Step Guide
Also, you can index and search a remote site such as an Alfresco-based site using WebSphere Portal Search, but it is limited to public pages only (i.e. portal search will not be able to apply any security to those results that are access-controlled) - .e.g:
Crawling a remote portal site
Is it possible to disable a DNN portal, or an entire DNN installation to everyone except administrator / host users?
I need to update a DNN website and apply new themes to differant sections of the website, however this will take some time on the live website.
I'd like to achieve similar to this "Wordpress Maintenance Mode" module plugin.
I'm aware of using the APP_OFFLINE.html file to disable the entire website, however we need a couple of admins to go in and make changes whilst keeping everyone else off the website.
There isn't a maintenance mode in DNN. What I would do is the following.
Setup a new website in IIS, beta.mywebsite.com. Have that website point to your Existing DNN folder.
Point your current website to a new folder with the App_Offline.htm file/message in place. Then have your admins go to the beta.mywebsite.com URL instead of going to the www version of the URL.
That would probably be the most straightforward way to do this for DNN without writing a custom maintenance mode module for DNN.
I started working on an existing website that uses DNN. I am having difficulty understanding and accessing DNN in their staging/test environment. In IIS there are a few different websites. How can I figure out how to get to the main Admin DNN screen by looking at the information in IIS and exploring to files. Once there I need to apply new licenses for DNN.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.
In IIS, right click on the website and choose the Manage Bindings option, that will show you the various Host Names (URLS) that are configured.
Try those URLs, and then put ?CTL=login on the end of the URL to get DNN to load the login control. From there you can login with a HOST or ADMIN account, HOST/SuperUser account would be best, as you can then go to the Host/Portals (Site Management?) page and see how many different "sites" are configured within the DNN installation.
While doing some R&D I messed up my IBM WebSphere portal Login page. I appended a custom portlet on Login page along with original Login portlet. Now the Login page is not showing up and I am unable to access Administrative tools. I cannot even revert back these changes now. I have tried writing username and password in URL but no success. Is there any other way/workaround to revert back these changes or reset portal server to original form? because last thing I want to do is a re installation. Any help is appreciated.
Edit: I am using IBM WebSphere Portal Server v7
You can export the whole portal with the ExportRelease.xml using the xmlAccess interface.
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/dx/P61t4d
After doing the export you have got the whole page_structure.
You have to search for the login page. I think the parameter was named active. Its likely false.
Try active="true". The login page is named wps.Loginor something like that.
After modifying the page structure you can run it as a script with xmlAccess as well.
WebSphere Portal 7.0 doesn't provide with a way to "reset" the Portal Server instance to its original, out-of-the-box state. Unlike WebSphere Application Server, where you can simply delete a profile & recreate a new one, this isn't possible with WebSphere Portal.
Having said that, WebSphere Portal 7.0 has the ability to support multiple profiles: http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/portalwiki.nsf/xpDocViewer.xsp?lookupName=IBM+WebSphere+Portal+7+Product+Documentation#action=openDocument&res_title=Supporting_multiple_profiles_wp7&content=pdcontent
So, what you can do is this:
Reinstall WebSphere Portal 7.0.
Take a backup of the WebSphere Portal 7.0 instance, as per the documentation.
When there comes the time to revert to the original, restore from the backup.
That is the only definitive way to reset a WebSphere Portal 7.0 instance... unfortunately.
Get the XML of the page from other portal environment and import it.