Themes Not Working

[Jonathan Carling]

Hi there,

I'm completely new to FunnelWeb but I think it's great and the best looking MVC blog engine out there.

I am having a bit of trouble though - running the website in Visual Studio and once published to my local IIS, everything runs and shows as expects.

However, when I FTP to my hosting provider (Vidahost) the theme.css is failing to load. Looking at the web console in Firefox, this is the output I get from my working local version:

[01:33:08.843] GET http://localhost:73/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 293ms]

[01:33:09.249] GET http://localhost:73/Content/themes/base/baseCss?v=-PvrauoGMFEU9xHOoEdS-ysLZitJD6KOGaku28u8XnY1 [HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently 6ms]

[01:33:09.250] GET http://localhost:73/Content/themes/base/css?v=ps9Ga9601PrzNA2SK3sQXlYmNW3igUv5FOdOPWptyus1 [HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently 6ms]

But from my broken live version I get:

[01:32:16.469] GET http://wearewearside.com/ [HTTP/1.1 200 OK 802ms]

[01:32:17.257] GET http://wearewearside.com/Content/themes/base/baseCss?v=-PvrauoGMFEU9xHOoEdS-ysLZitJD6KOGaku28u8XnY1 [HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently 926ms]

[01:32:17.258] GET http://wearewearside.com/Content/themes/base/css?v=ps9Ga9601PrzNA2SK3sQXlYmNW3igUv5FOdOPWptyus1 [HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently 927ms]

[01:32:17.259] GET http://wearewearside.com/content/theme.css [HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found 921ms]

The site URL is: wearewearside.com

I'm guessing it might be permissions related? I had a look at the code and I'm just guessing this might have something to do with it?

var layoutName = "_Public";

    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/" + layoutName + ".cshtml";

    if(Context.IsMobileDevice())

    {

        layoutName = "_Mobile";

        Layout = "~/Views/Shared/" + layoutName + ".cshtml";

    }

    

    var settingsProvider = DependencyResolver.Current.GetService<FunnelWeb.Settings.ISettingsProvider>();

    var settings = settingsProvider.GetSettings<FunnelWeb.Settings.FunnelWebSettings>();

    var locationFormats = new List<string>

                                  {

                                      "~/Themes/" + settings.Theme + "/Views/{0}.cshtml",

                                      "~/Themes/" + settings.Theme + "/Views/Shared/{0}.cshtml",

                                      "~/Views/Extensions/{0}.cshtml",

                                  };

    foreach(var format in locationFormats)

    {

        var virtualPath = String.Format(

            System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture,

            format,

            layoutName);

        System.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine(virtualPath);

        if(!System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.VirtualPathProvider.FileExists(virtualPath))

        {

            continue;

        }

        this.Layout = virtualPath;

        break;

    }  

Any help/suggestions is massively appreciated.

Thanks,

Jonny

[Aaron Powell]

My guess is that the problem is to do with permissions to the App_Data folder. FunnelWeb uses Client Dependency (http://github.com/shandem/clientdependency) which writes the files to disk under App_Data. If your app pool account doesn’t have write access then it’ll fail.

 

Aaron Powell
MVP - Internet Explorer (Development) | FunnelWeb Team Member

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[Jonathan Carling]

Hi Aaron,

Thanks for your reply.

So the "missing file" (i.e. content/theme.css) never really exists? Is it created as a sort of temporary file in App_Data and then visualized as if it does exist in that location?

I'll get my host provider to grant the Application Pool account to have write permissions on the App_Data directory and get back to you.

Thanks for your advice.

Regards.
Jonny

[Jonathan Carling]

Hi Aaron,

I've just noticed (duh!) when you deploy the website there's is no App_Data directory. So I thought I'd change the write permissions of the content directory (where theme.css is expected?) to be writeable on the host but still no luck (see picture). :(

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jonny

[Jonathan Carling]

Update: Hosting provider has solved the problem - it was to do with allowing wildcards.

All is now good, themes/css loading and displaying as expected. :)