Hi,

I am doing some work at getting a site ready which will be using mojo portal and have hit a bit of a snag.  The problem is that the app is idling so when I log in after a long period it takes quite a while to fire up.  Once it does all is fine.  I had read the docs before I started so add the keep alive the the user.config file but here is the log straight out of the mojo portal admin system logs:

2010-07-07 22:17:20,154 ERROR mojoPortal.Web.AppKeepAliveTask - System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out
   at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
   at mojoPortal.Web.AppKeepAliveTask.DoKeepAlive()
2010-07-07 22:19:10,326 INFO mojoPortal.Web.Global - Global.asax.cs Application_End
2010-07-08 18:54:07,592 INFO mojoPortal.Web.Global - Application Started.
2010-07-08 18:54:13,732 INFO mojoPortal.Web.WebTaskManager - Queued WebTaskManager on a new thread
2010-07-08 18:54:14,076 INFO mojoPortal.Web.WebTaskManager - deserialized WebTaskManager task
2010-07-08 18:54:14,217 INFO mojoPortal.Web.AppKeepAliveTask - Queued AppKeepAliveTask on a new thread
2010-07-08 18:54:15,060 INFO mojoPortal.Web.AppKeepAliveTask - deserialized AppKeepAliveTask task
2010-07-09 04:43:55,951 ERROR mojoPortal.Web.AppKeepAliveTask - System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at mojoPortal.Web.AppKeepAliveTask.DoKeepAlive()
2010-07-09 04:44:49,388 INFO mojoPortal.Web.Global - Global.asax.cs Application_End
2010-07-09 13:04:25,998 INFO mojoPortal.Web.Global - Application Started.
2010-07-09 13:04:50,904 INFO mojoPortal.Web.WebTaskManager - deserialized WebTaskManager task
2010-07-09 13:04:50,920 INFO mojoPortal.Web.WebTaskManager - Queued WebTaskManager on a new thread
2010-07-09 13:04:51,029 INFO mojoPortal.Web.AppKeepAliveTask - Queued AppKeepAliveTask on a new thread
2010-07-09 13:04:51,560 INFO mojoPortal.Web.AppKeepAliveTask - deserialized AppKeepAliveTask task
 

Now this might not be a problem once the site goes live (not accessible via dns at the moment) as traffic might keep it going although I do not expect it will be a high traffic site - have I done something wrong with setting it to stay alive or do I need to change something else?  Once the app kicks back in the site works fine and is nice and quick but just want to overcome that initial lag.

Regards

Andrew

EDIT - rather than start a new post on this I also have a question about the blog feature.  I have put a blog module on the homepage for news and put it in the right hand column, used the excerpt options and it looks exactly as I wanted it to on the homepage.  The problem I have is that when you click the read more... link it opens the full post but looks like it is still being contained with the right hand column on the post page and not using the full extent of the page - can I get round this or would I need to create the full page and then manually create a shorter blog post and create a link to the page in the entry?  The other problem I am having is that I can't assign a category to a post, if I click the Add Category button nothing seems to happen, if I click the edit category link I can see categories I have added tho??

2nd EDIT - I added a blog module to another page and added a category before any posts - this show up fine and can be ticked.  Again though clicking the Add Category button does not seem to do anything.  Also there is a categories text box, is this used for creating the tag cloud?  I think some of these problems are down to my misunderstanding how a few bits work....

The other thing that threw me for a little while there was why the blog posts were using American times instead of UK ones - until I realised that when I logged out they appeared as UK time - quick user profile check sorted that out! 

Hi Joe,

Thankyou for the reply there, I didn't realise how the AppKeepAlive worked, once explained it makes perfect sense (i.e. DNS not setup yet).

Apologies for posting in the wrong forum and I appreciate that this is misleading and makes searching more difficult.

Will repost the blog questions as suggested, in the meantime I can tick this one of the list.

Regards

Andrew