BlogEngine.NET

so I am trying to add a registration page and a couple other random pages to my blogengine theme. I create the page set it up just like every other page on the theme link it to my site.master and place it in my root direcotyr. When i try to go to it, it says opps page can not be displayed. I tried disabling the 404 error in the web.config but it is already set to off.

Any ideas?

I tried adding it to all the above directories and no luck. Is there a step by step process. even just being able to acces a blank page would be nice, then i could set it up from there. Basiclly I want to add a grid view to it to pull data from a mssql database based on a date query. feel like an idiot not being able toget the page to displayed lol

Hi blbraner,

Naw, don't feel like you're being singled out for struggle.  I've spent somewhere 'round 12 hours today struggling with cranky, cranky code and impossible database errors.  My, my, my... the woe and travail. <g>  So, lookey, if I post this step-by-step list for you here, some wonder coder is probably gonna get snarky and point out that I'm doing everything wrong.  So, when they do, you're gonna hafta be on my side, okay? I went through these steps:

Fired up VS 2005
Opened a Website
Clicked on the top line in Solution Explorer (which for me says "C:websites\BEThemeDev\")
Right-clicked on that "C:\websites\BEThemeDev\" and selected "Add New Item"
Selected "Webform"
Named it "somedata.aspx" ...
Made sure the "select master page" was checked
Clicked on Themes folder, the my current theme... then the Site.master file in it.
Clicked OK
That put my new file (somedata.aspx) in the root of the site.
From the toolbox, dragged a gridview into the content area
Connected the grid to a database... <clickity, click, click>
Right-clicked the page... View in browser... pulled up the theme as usual.
Noted the URL (make sure you take out the :#### <--numbers port designation cassini uses)
Opened up another browser to run the website in IIS rather than in the little Visual studio cassini server...
Put in the page's URL... it loaded up as it should.

 In my previous note, I was a little suspicious that maybe you had something awry in the URL.  I have this theory that 80% of my programming errors are naming or typing errors.

Hope it works.

-GayLyn 

Hi blbraner,

Seems to me you might have explained the problem.  I didn't follow the example through to the point of adding a link.  That could certainly be where your problem is. As above, I created a somedata.aspx page and placed it in the root directory.  Then, in my sidebar code of my chosen theme's site.master, I have the following link code:

            <div id="sidebar">
            <ul><li><h2>
            <asp:HyperLink ID="HyperLink1" NavigateUrl="~/somedata.aspx" runat="server">Somedata</asp:HyperLink></h2></li>
	   <li><h2>Some Link</h2></li>
            </ul>
            <div id="widgetzone" class="widget">
            <blog:WidgetZone ID="WidgetZone1" runat="server" />
            </div>
            </div><!-- close sidebar -->

... yes... I have become compulsive enough that I comment my </div> closings.  

My theory is that your trouble is in your link, and I'm stickin'with that.

-GayLyn

Hi Brandon,

You'll need to upgrade to 1.5+ to do the widget zone thing.

Change the link.  It is now this:

<ul><li><h2>
     <a id="ctl00_HyperLink1" href="trainingpage.aspx">test 
     link</a></h2></li>
</ul>

It needs to be this:

          <ul><li><h2>
            <a id="ctl00_HyperLink1" href="~/trainingpage.aspx">test 
              link</a></h2></li>
            </ul>

Somehow, I think that is not the entire problem.  

If I cannot retrieve the page with this:

http://www.ironbarfitness.com/trainingpage.aspx?theme=standard

(having removed any goofiness connected with the theme or the link, and reverted to the standard theme), it may not be where you think it is.  

Make a page with a totally different/easy/absolutely-couldn't-be-a-duplicate name and make sure it's in the root folder, the same folder as archive.aspx, contact.aspx, error404.aspx.  And make sure you have the "~/" in the link.

Why does your theme open all the pages in a new window? Even the links in the top menu? Maybe a _target attribute is complicating this link problem?

You're going to make it work, aren't you?

-GayLyn

I really dont get it, i even just try to add an adrotator to the master page and i then get a error when the pages loads....