Hi Guys,

I'm new to blogengine.net, I first installed it as a test on my local IIS and was very impressed so I decided to upload it to my website. Everything is A-OK and i'm having no problems on my primary domain. However, i'm also sharing my hosting with another website and since the upload of blogengine.net the other web site has a configuration error. Blogengine.net is installed into the root directory of the primary domain and the secondary domain is configured to read from a folder within the root directory.

Please help as this secondary site belongs to a friends business and I don't know why this is happening.

Configuration Error

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'BlogEngine.Core' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (d:\hosting\cvandal\web.config line 97)

Source Error:

[No relevant source lines]

Could not find file 'd:\hosting\primary_domain\secondary_domain\App_Data\settings.xml'.

I have this same problem with shared hosting on GoDaddy.  I have BE hosted at the root of my web server with a secondary site completely unrelated to BE in a subdirectory of the root.  I am getting the cannot find BlogEngine.Core error message on the secondary (non BE) domain.  I tried dropping in another web.config for my secondary site with no such luck.  Is there any way to make this work?

There's two things I would do.

In the web.config file of the child (non-BE) site, I would explicitly remove the 4 HTTP Modules that BE has registered.  If you're on IIS6, you will only need to remove the modules from the <httpModules> section.  If you're on IIS7, you'll want to do the same thing in the <modules> element in the <system.webServer> section.  If you're on IIS7, it won't hurt to remove the modules from both the <httpModules> section as well as the <modules> section.

<system.web>
    <httpModules>
        <!-- below modules are from parent app -->
        <remove name="WwwSubDomainModule"/>
        <remove name="UrlRewrite"/>
        <remove name="CompressionModule"/>
        <remove name="ReferrerModule"/>
        <!-- above modules are from parent app -->
        <!-- ..... add any modules you need in your child app here ...... -->
    </httpModules>
</system.web>

<system.webServer>
    <modules>
        <!-- below modules are from parent app -->
        <remove name="WwwSubDomainModule"/>
        <remove name="UrlRewrite"/>
        <remove name="CompressionModule"/>
        <remove name="ReferrerModule"/>
        <!-- above modules are from parent app -->
        <!-- ..... add any modules you need in your child app here ...... -->
    </modules>            
<system.webServer>
        
If you have access to the web.config file in BE, I would wrap the existing <system.web> section in the <location> tag as shown below.  This will prevent some of the BE settings from propagating down to the sub-applications.
        
<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
    <system.web>
    
         <!--  all the existing settings  -->
    
    </system.web>
</location>

Worked perfectly, thanks so much BenAmada!

I am also facing the same issue.

Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'BlogEngine.Core' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest. (C:\Inetpub\vhosts\jobglance.com\httpdocs\blog\web.config line 97)

Line 95:
Line 96:       <httpModules>
Line 97:         <add name="WwwSubDomainModule" type="BlogEngine.Core.Web.HttpModules.WwwSubDomainModule, BlogEngine.Core"/>

I tried with alternate solution that is suggested by BenAmada. I have tried on domain as well subdomain but it not working

In localhost, it is working but on production, it is not working. it is shared hosting.

Hi Guys,

I am still waiting for your help.

Parser Error Message: Could not load file or assembly 'BlogEngine.Core' or one of its dependencies. The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest. (C:\Inetpub\vhosts\jobglance.com\httpdocs\blog\web.config line 97)

BenAmada --- Thank you for your information on dealing with subdomain web applications. I am on shared hosting with GoDaddy. In my case I had BE in the root, and another non-BE application in the subdomain.  I followed your instructions precisely and it worked.

I did the same but it doesn't work, in my sub domain: http://leech.code2code.info is PHP code

Note: I use godaddy hosting with IIS7.

Please advice me!
Thanks