Site Build Error Cannot find Skin

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12/2/2014 10:40:15 AM
abman2000
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Site Build Error Cannot find Skin

I am working with mojoportal 2.4.0.4 source on mssql 2012 on my local machine. I have developed a custom feature that I was able to build and implement locally under the debug configuration. When I switch to release and try to deploy the files to my test site I get the error

Theme 'default1art42-wallpaper' cannot be found in the application or global theme directories.

I am publishing the release configuration to a local folder then using FileZilla to transfer to my test server and have verified the files are there in the "data\sites\1\skins\art42-wallpaper\"  folder

Like I said it works locally on my machine but this only seems to show up once I copy the files to the test server. I can query the site table and the skin name shows up correctly however it looks like somewhere the word. "Default" is getting concatenated.. 

I have run setup 3 different times to see if that would correct the issue but no luck so far.  

I would appreciate any help you could provide..

12/2/2014 12:09:55 PM
Joe Audette
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Re: Site Build Error Cannot find Skin

I think you are re-building/compiling the already compiled/published deployment files and it is breaking the virtual path provider used for themes as explained in the article Understanding the Difference Between Source Code and Deployment Files. It is looking in the wrong place for the theme file because the virtual path provider is not working, because you re-compiled the already compiled deployment files using the "pre-compile" option checked in VS which is the part that breaks virtual path providers. You can uncheck that and avoid the problem, but the main point is the deployment files are already built/compiled/published and don't need to be re-published or built by VS. 

Hope that helps,

Joe

12/2/2014 1:20:58 PM
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Re: Site Build Error Cannot find Skin

Joe,

That helps out tremendously.. I did however download the source from CodePlex extracted it rebuilt it and got the same issue.. 

I am publishing to a local directory and under settings I am selecting delete all files prior to publish (So it is Clean) and Pre-compile during publishing. 

Should I not "Pre-Compile" ?

 

regards,

Joe

12/2/2014 1:26:16 PM
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Re: Site Build Error Cannot find Skin

those packages on codeplex named with "deploymentfiles" are not source code, the only correct way to get the source code is using Tortoise HG, if you use the real source code you will not see an option for pre-compile because it is not a valid option for the web application project type that we use.

also do not try to download source code from the source code tab on codeplex, it is not reliable, use Tortoise HG

12/2/2014 2:28:38 PM
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Re: Site Build Error Cannot find Skin

Joe,

I am guessing that is the only way to get the source code.  I cannot install TortoiseHG on my dev machine because of company security policies. That is another issue. 

In the meantime I will put this development on hold an use the deployment files for now until we can get this resolved ..

 

Thanks for your support

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