dotnetnuke up and running error - dotnetnuke

I developed a DotNetNuke application and hosted it on a web server. When I browse the site, I am getting the following error:
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error Description: An
application error occurred on the
server. The current custom error
settings for this application prevent
the details of the application error
from being viewed remotely (for
security reasons). It could, however,
be viewed by browsers running on the
local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this
specific error message to be viewable
on remote machines, please create a
<customErrors> tag within a
"web.config" configuration file
located in the root directory of the
current web application. This
<customErrors> tag should then have
its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web> </configuration>
Notes: The current error page you are
seeing can be replaced by a custom
error page by modifying the
"defaultRedirect" attribute of the
application's <customErrors>
configuration tag to point to a custom
error page URL.
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly"
defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web> </configuration>
Can any one tell me how to resolve the problem...

The main problem here is that you aren't getting any detail about what the error. Any success achieved while troubleshooting this without exposing some more detail (or knowledge of your setup) is going to be pretty close to pure luck.
I would suggest following the instructions that this default error message is giving you and editing the web. config file. The file is named "web.config" and it lives in the root of the website.
Open the file and search for "RemoteOnly", you should see something that says customErrors mode="RemoteOnly". Change the "RemoteOnly" to "Off" and save the file. The next time you browse to the site you should see a more detailed error message. Please share that with us here in the form of an update to your current post or as a new question (which I recommend, as it technically will be a different question).
Also, I recommend making a backup copy of the web.config file first before making any changes.

You need to check if your ASP.NET is functional. Since you didnt post any details on your web server, i would recommend you check if you have .NET 2.0 installed and your web server is configured to use it.
You can run aspnet_regiis -i in the c:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.x.x.x. directory to re-register the aspnet modules.
You might also want to check if your virtual directories have the execute permission enabled.

When you say you "developed a DotNetNuke application" I need more information.
Did you develop a DotNetNuke MODULE?
If so, did you install it on a DotNetNuke site that was working before, but isn't now?

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Configuring Breeze web client to connect to remote breeze server with CORS support

We are envisioning a product that will have a web front end and mobile apps on multiple platforms (Xamarin). I've already turned a breeze angular hot towel example into a web front end. I am tasked with investigating splitting apart the breeze web client and the breeze server back end. The main reason for this is the mobile devs could potentially use breeze sharp to save their objects to the same breeze back end. It seems like a bad idea to have the breeze web client and server coupled so tightly. I duplicated the project and stripped out the necessary parts on each end to decouple them.
The part I can't figure out is how to get them to talk to each other again. I briefly looked into connectionString, but that doesn't seem to be the right answer. Any ideas on how to get them talking again would be appreciated.
Edit: 20140725 14:23
I've been trying to resolve this on and off since yesterday. I looked into connectionStrings in Web.config and found that that was dead end. Another post made me think that appSettings in Web.config.
I found a parameter in config.js named remoteServiceName. The previous value was "breeze/Breeze" I changed it to
'http://localhost:4545/breeze/Breeze'
The web client still fails:
Error retrieving data.Metadata query failed for: http://localhost:4545/breeze/Breeze/Metadata; HTTP response status 0 and no message. Likely did not or could not reach server. Is the server running? Error: Metadata query failed for: 'http://localhost:4545/breeze/Breeze/Metadata'; HTTP response status 0 and no message. Likely did not or could not reach server. Is the server running?'
When I run that link in its own tab I get metadata.
What did I strip out?: The breeze controller, models, repository (c# only), dbcontext, and BreezeWebApiConfig
Edit 20140725 14:52
Sorry I missed the exception before the one mentioned above:
XMLHttpRequest cannot load http://localhost:4545/breeze/Breeze/Metadata. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://localhost:53555' is therefore not allowed access.
Thank you to everyone for the clues you provided in the comments!
The first part of the answer I already included in my edits above:
I found a parameter in config.js named remoteServiceName. The previous value was "breeze/Breeze" I changed it to
'http://localhost:4545/breeze/Breeze'
That got the client talking attempting to talk to the remote server.
After that the CORS issue stumped me. The three following links helped me solve this issue:
Using Breeze with a WebApi Service from another domain
WebAPI CORS and Ninject
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dn532203.aspx
You have to install the CORS packages. From the microsoft article:
First, in order to get the CORS framework, you must reference the CORS libraries from your Web API application (they’re not referenced by default from any of the Web API templates in Visual Studio 2013). The Web API CORS framework is available via NuGet as the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Cors package. If you’re not using NuGet, it’s also available as part of Visual Studio 2013, and you’ll need to reference two assemblies: System.Web.Http.Cors.dll and System.Web.Cors.dll (on my machine these are located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Stack 5\Packages).
The next step was to add a few lines to the config file from the webapi-cors-and-ninject stackoverflow post:
<system.webServer>
<handlers>
</handlers>
<httpProtocol>
<customHeaders>
<!-- Adding the following custom HttpHeader will help prevent CORS from stopping the Request-->
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Origin" value="*" />
<add name="Access-Control-Allow-Headers" value="Content-Type" />
</customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>
Obviously this is a very insecure solution and shouldn't be used for anything other than a development environment.

404 returned from a file that exists in ASP.Net on IIS 5

I'm running into this problem and its driving me crazy.
Also, we are not allowed to update the version of IIS.
The content on the server (asmx files holding WCF webmethods called via SOAP) exists and I can freely browse in inetmgr to the virtual directory that contains this data. The files all exist all on the file system and the virtual directories all point to the correct spot and have the correct ACLS, but when I go to their URLs all I get is a 404 message.
I have reset IIS, I have rebooted the server, and I have done everything I can think of.
The IIS logs simple return "404 - -" as the entire line contents, with no other data in the line.
The event logs show nothing, and ASPNET is not dying or anything like that.
With no event logs, and minimal logs in IIS , I have no idea what to do and was hoping that others had run into this before.
In IIS logs there should some codes along side the 404 error which will help find the issue.
Check IIS has the correct version of .Net installed using aspnet_regiis command line tool. Also check that ASMX extensions are mapped to the .Net ISAPI filter as they are with ASPX pages.

Why does my Azure application still point to default.aspx?

I have created a PivotViewer application with an Azure Web role, and it deploys on my local machine perfectly. When I deploy it to azure, the standard default.aspx "My ASP.NET" application is the loaded page. I can not seem to find a solution in all of the tutorials. If I point the browser to http://solution.cloudapp.net/MyAzureStartPage.aspx, I can also find a perfect deployment, but I can't seem to get the proper home page.
Determining which page to load if none is explicitly specified is a function of the web server. Without configuration changes, the web server is never going to expect to look for your custom page.
Can you not simply rename your desired start page default.aspx? That would be the simplest approach.
Add defaultDocument element in your web.config under configuration/system.webServer node. Something like this will get your default page defined:
<defaultDocument enabled="true">
<files>
<add value="MyAzureStartPage.aspx"/>
</files>
</defaultDocument>

DotNetNuke error

I hosted one DotNetNUke Application to my production server, and locally it works perfectly. But, when browsing it redirects to the error page.
How do I set the default.aspx as my application default page? I am getting the error as below:
DotNetNuke Error
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Windows Vista
Return to Site
Can anyone can help me, please? Will be appreciated.
UPDATE:
Hi, I changed the Path in the PortalAlias table to the server url and default.aspx as the starting page, but it displays the error.aspx as default page.
Please help me resolve this problem..
So, the application works perfectly locally, but not when you put it on the server. Is that correct?
Make sure that your portal alias is valid. If the site is hosted at
http://www.mysite.com
then www.mysite.com needs to be listed in the PortalAlias table
If you open that table in SQL Mgmt Studio, you'll probably see an entry attaching the portal to your local DotNetNuke folder (ie. localhost). Just add a new entry that points to the same PortalID, but with the correct URL for your production server.
Assuming your DNN installation is at "mysite.com", if you navigate to
http://www.mysite.com/default.aspx
do you still get the error page? If so is any error listed?
I was able to fix the issue (for me) by taking the web.config file from a working site with the same version of DotNetNuke and modifying it to have to correct machine key and connection strings. This is my last resort something is really strange procedure.

Accessing SharePoint Web Services over Silverlight

I have a problem to access SharePoint Webservice over Silverlight.
An error occurred while trying to make a request to URI
'http://sample:8000/_vti_bin/Authentication.asmx'.
This could be due to attempting to
access a service in a cross-domain way
without a proper cross-domain policy
in place, or a policy that is
unsuitable for SOAP services. You may
need to contact the owner of the
service to publish a cross-domain
policy file and to ensure it allows
SOAP-related HTTP headers to be sent.
Please see the inner exception for
more details.
Some questions:
How do I correctly deploy clientaccesspolicy.xml over Sharepoint Designer? Simply open site in designer, add file and then publish?
The site where clientaccesspolicy.xml should be deployed use forms authentication. I wasn't able to use Sharepoint Designer to publish there. Because of that, I created new zone for this site, which use Windows Authentication and published clientaccesspolicy.xml there. Both use same content database, didn't ?
If clientaccesspolicy.xml will be published, how can I allow this file be accessed anonymously?
Regards
Anton Kalcik
Here answers to my question 1. and 2.:
In Sharepoint Designer you open the site over: File -> Open Site -> In text field "Site name:" type URL of your site. Than drag & drop clientaccesspolicy.xml in root of your site.
If you have Form Authentication, you don't need for this step create new zone (but for some reasons it can be useful). You simply open web browser and type URL of your site. Then fill up text fields (always with user that have administrator privileges) and check "Sign me in automatically". After that will Sharepoint designer use this credentials for specified URL.
If you can help me with question Nr. 3, or you have some other solution, how can I access clientaccesspolicy.xml from Silverlight, post it!
The way we handled this on our project was to use an HTTP Handler. We put the clientaccesspolicy.xml file in the _layouts directory (which is shared across sharepoint sites) using a feature (you can also just manually copy it there).
Then we added our HTTP handler to the web.config handlers section. In our handler we check to see if the request is for /clientaccesspolicy.xml and if so we rewrite the path:
if (path.ToLowerInvariant() == "/clientaccesspolicy.xml")
{
HttpContext.Current.RewritePath("/_layouts/clientaccesspolicy.xml");
}
I'm not sure if this will bypass the security so it might not fully address your issue. But at least it gives you a method to access this file.
That is fine.
It should be, provided you haven't setup a whole new site somehow.
It shouldn't be as that would be a security risk. If you need to authenticate via WindowsAuth for the services so should you for the clientaccesspolicy.xml.
Keep in mind that clientaccesspolicy.xml must be at the domain root. In your example it would have to availble from http://sample:8000/clientaccesspolicy.xml. If you can't open it from your browser at that URL, your Silverlight client won't find it either.
The easiest way to get the file in the right place is to just copy it there via FTP or explorer. The file should be available to anonymous users (read only of course).
I find more realeable way to implement sharepoint httpHandler: it returns all content of clientaccesspolicy.xml himself
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) {
if (context.Request.Path.ToLowerInvariant() == "/clientaccesspolicy.xml") {
context.Response.Write(#"<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?><access-policy><cross-domain-access> "+
#"<policy> <allow-from http-request-headers='*'> <domain uri='*' /> </allow-from> <grant-to> "+
#"<resource path='/' include-subpaths='true' /> </grant-to> </policy> "+
#"</cross-domain-access> </access-policy>");
}
}

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