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1/22/2008 6:51 PM
 
Ron Robinson

www.800cart.com
Joined: 7/15/2006
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Just did an upgrade to 4.8.0 and when Itry to run the site, I get:

Server Error in '/' Application.
Absolute path information is required.

 

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.ArgumentException: Absolute path information is required.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace: 

[ArgumentException: Absolute path information is required.]
   System.Security.Util.StringExpressionSet.CreateListFromExpressions(String[] str, Boolean needFullPath) +2726793
   System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.AddPathList(FileIOPermissionAccess access, AccessControlActions control, String[] pathListOrig, Boolean checkForDuplicates, Boolean needFullPath, Boolean copyPathList) +105
   System.Web.InternalSecurityPermissions.PathDiscovery(String path) +76
   System.Web.Caching.CacheDependency.Init(Boolean isPublic, String[] filenamesArg, String[] cachekeysArg, CacheDependency dependency, DateTime utcStart) +2560
   System.Web.Caching.CacheDependency..ctor(String filename, DateTime start) +118
   System.Web.Caching.CacheDependency..ctor(String filename) +56
   DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Config.RewriterConfiguration.GetConfig() +324
   DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewriteModule.OnBeginRequest(Object s, EventArgs e) +955
   System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +92
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +64

Not much in google or here that is helpful searching on '"Absolute path information is required" ' - can anybody help me with this??

 
 
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4/27/2008 3:18 PM
 
Jeff Martin


jeffmartin.com
Joined: 5/14/2003
Posts: 79

Same error here on 4.8.2.  If anyone knows the answer please post... this message came up on google first for "Absolute path information is required."  DNN Upgrade

 

 

Jeff Martin
MCSD C#
 
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4/27/2008 7:55 PM
 
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  • do you have special settings for the portal home directory?
  • did you make sure, that both connection strings in Web.config are identical?
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5/4/2008 12:07 PM
 
Matthew Christenson

Joined: 10/19/2006
Posts: 164

I am having a similar problem.

All I did was backup and restore a DNN Instance, checking my process many times to make sure that it was done correctly, and DNN would not run giving me this error:

Exception Details: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'c:\DotNetNuke.config'.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace: 

[FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'c:\DotNetNuke.config'.]
   System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) +328
   System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) +1038
   System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share) +114
   DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Compression.RequestFilter.RequestFilterSettings.GetSettings() +265
   DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Compression.RequestFilter.HttpModule.FilterRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) +279
   System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +157
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +65

Out of despiration, I added DotNetNuke.config to the c:\ directory, now I get the error you posted above.

Some sites have led to the possibility that the .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 is the cause:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jpsanders/archive/2007/12/18/system-argumentexception-absolute-path-information-is-required.aspx

Some other clues might be here:

http://weblogs.asp.net/lancea/archive/2004/05/28/143645.aspx

The curious thing is that the original site runs just fine - i duplicated it (but using a different IP address and a copy of the database) so that I could test an upgrade from DNN 4.5.5 to DNN 4.8.2 - it's DNN 4.5.5 that broke even without the upgrade.  I attempted to overwrite DNN files with the 4.8.2 upgrade with no resolution.

 

It is worth mentioning that this installation of DotNetNuke has been upgraded numerous times, it's origional version would have been whatever the latest was in Dec 2006.  I have two dozen other DotNetNuke websites and have never encountered this problem before.

I found a thread with my original error, that led me to no solution.  That thread is here: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/107/postid/223816/scope/posts/Default.aspx 

I have tried to check Gemini, but it seems that Support.DotNetNuke.com is currently down...

Please post back if you have resolved your issue or if you have any ideas!

-Matt

 
 
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5/4/2008 1:11 PM
 
Matthew Christenson

Joined: 10/19/2006
Posts: 164

I FIXED IT!

Ussually when I upgrade, i manually look for web.config files and merge changes manually.... 

I must have missed something...

I started from web.release, change the database name, object qualifier, added the install date setting, and replaced the machine key - and everything works!

 
 
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