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6/12/2007 5:53 PM
 

Hello all,

Having big issues here while almost ready to deploy my first DNN site.  I had installed a bad module on the homepage which failed miserably and I was unable to delete the module.  So, I recreated the home page (home2), added the existing homepage content to home2 and proceeded to delete the 'home' tab from the portal with the intention of replacing it with a renamed home2.  Well, I initially got an Object Reference not set... error on deleting the 'home' tab, which wasn't fatal just showed up as an error box within DNN.  So, I renamed Home2 to Home, then browsed to the root of the site and got a fatal Object Reference not set error!!! 

Does anybody have any insight into what went wrong here?  We are days away from go live on this site and it is currently down with the following error:

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings.VerifyPortalTab(Int32 PortalId, Int32 TabId) +404
   DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings.GetPortalSettings(Int32 TabId, PortalAliasInfo objPortalAliasInfo) +2413
   DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings..ctor(Int32 tabId, PortalAliasInfo objPortalAliasInfo) +83
   DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewriteModule.OnBeginRequest(Object s, EventArgs e) +2677
   System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +92
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +64

I have tried going into the Portals table in the db and setting HomeTabID to the correct new Home Tab but still the same error.  Any ideas would be very very appreciated.

Thanks!

Karim

 
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6/13/2007 9:54 AM
 

My guess is that you have set a default homepage in your site settings.  If you go into the database in the Portals table clear the value for hometabid and you should be ok.


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6/13/2007 7:46 PM
 

I am having this same exact issue and I have been trying to follow your instructions but am completely lost. Can you please give me more steps to fix this?

 
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6/13/2007 10:34 PM
 

Run this sql script

    update portals
   set hometabid=null
    where portalid= your portal id

   You can see you portalid in portals table. If you have only one portal , this value should be 0

 

    


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