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6/27/2009 12:37 AM
 
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Alright, so this is going to sound really silly.

I'm brand new to DNN, not to web development.  I'm considering using it to implement a brand new public facing website.  Late last night I installed DNN 5.01 on my development box and started poking around with the various admin/page editing features.  I was viewing some kind of settings surrounding default.aspx.  I noticed an option that would seem to cause the page to return an image.  I thought to myself, "Well, that's silly, would I really want to do that with the default.aspx page?  Let's pretend to be a user who doesn't know better and poke around with this setting."    Anyway, long story short, now when I browse to default.aspx, I'm redirected to LinkClick.aspx?xxx and an image of a shopping cart appears. 

Actually, it appears that I've totally locked myself out of the site, which is somewhat scary because I want to allow the marketing people at my company to mange their own content, but if it's this easy to "accidentally" cause the default page to display a shopping cart, I have to question whether or not that's such a smart idea.

I know no one will believe me, but I swear I did this intentionally--not just to see if it was possible, but to see what it would take to fix it.  This kind of thing needs to be resolved easily if DNN is going to be a viable option for my company.  I can easily go through the installation procedure again but I'd sure hate to have to restore from a backup in a production environment.

So, what do you guys think?  What do I do?

 
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6/27/2009 4:05 AM
 

The page redirection feature is useful to integrate documents into the menu - of course, this doesn't make sense for the home page. Unfortunately it is very hard for developers to anticipate all pitfalls of any option in a flexible framework. I logged this limitation into our issue tracker.

To fix it you need to access the database, in table tabs there you need to replace the value of Column URL for the Home page record with Null.


Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

dnnWerk - The DotNetNuke Experts   German Spoken DotNetNuke User Group

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6/28/2009 11:22 PM
 

Thanks sebastian--your solution solved my problem.  May be we'll see this feature grayed out for key pages in the next version.

 
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6/29/2009 3:41 AM
 

I entered this issue into our tracker to add a UI constraint preventing this feature being misused - I am sure we will find a proper option like disabling the URL control.


Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

dnnWerk - The DotNetNuke Experts   German Spoken DotNetNuke User Group

Speed up your DNN Websites with TurboDNN
 
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