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7/10/2009 5:30 PM
 
Sam Straub

Joined: 5/16/2005
Posts: 9

I have a DNN site running on one of my servers and everything works fine.  I'm working on it, and publishing each change to test got cumbersome real quick, so I copied it to my local machine.  I tried to add the localhost alias and port number of the asp.net development server visual studio creates and apparently you can't have port numbers in aliases (and every link in DNN wants to use localhost with no port number), so I added the localhost alias and set IIS up to map to the DNN directory.  But when I try to access it locally I get the following error.  Again, everything is working fine on the server.

*** This funny thing is, when I open the site using localhost:port I get the default.aspx fine, so the development server's not having the issue IIS is..

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

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

Source Error: 

Line 453:
Line 454:            ' load skin control
Line 455:            Dim ctlSkin As DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin = DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin.GetSkin(Me)
Line 456:
Line 457:            'check for and read skin package level doctype

Source File: J:\Visual Studio 2005 Projects\beta12731\Default.aspx.vb    Line: 455

Stack Trace: 

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin.GetSkin(PageBase Page) +895
   DotNetNuke.Framework.DefaultPage.Page_Init(Object sender, EventArgs e) in J:\Visual Studio 2005 Projects\CompEdgeTech\beta12731\Default.aspx.vb:455
   System.Web.UI.Control.OnInit(EventArgs e) +131
   System.Web.UI.Page.OnInit(EventArgs e) +15
   DotNetNuke.Framework.PageBase.OnInit(EventArgs e) +312
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +142
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1476

[PageLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.Exceptions.ProcessPageLoadException(Exception exc, String URL) +407
   System.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e) +109
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +11035547
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +11035098
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest() +91
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) +240
   ASP.default_aspx.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) +52
   System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +599
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +171

 
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7/20/2009 9:04 PM
 
Sam Straub

Joined: 5/16/2005
Posts: 9

No one has experienced this or has an idea of what might be causing it?
 
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11/2/2009 4:15 PM
 
Kiran Badepalli

Joined: 9/27/2009
Posts: 1

Hi there,

 

I am also facing the same Problem...Did you guys Found any solutions
 
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11/23/2009 2:16 PM
 
Frank K

Joined: 11/6/2006
Posts: 185

 By chance, have you found a resolution? I just upgraded to 5.1.4 and now see this error
 
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12/6/2009 2:05 PM
 
Gareth Jones

Joined: 9/1/2008
Posts: 5

I had this error when restoring a server. it appears that some files were not updated as there were locked. I would suggest on an update you stop IIS and then copy the update in place to ensure all files are copied
 
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