Mike Horton wrote
Unfortunately Ryan it's not always possible to give a suggestion on how to fix a problem if you can't reliably recreate it. I've done dozens of installs of DNN 4.6.2 to 4.8.4 in the last couple of months and, personally, have never run into any errors. I'm not saying that they're not happening as they obviously are but I can't even begin to offer up a suggestion of what might be wrong if I can't get it to happen.
OH, i understand completely. if you can't reproduce it personally, then you have no idea where to start to look at the issue. I've done probably only a totoal of a dozen installs of DNN over the past couple years, and have done several upgrades across major dnn update levels, so I don't consider myself a lightweight in testing or making it through patches/updates. Searching online, not finding much in the way of answers on this one, but am finding several posts with these exact stack trace items or very similar, all with no answers to them... so I'm not complaining... but definately looking for the solution and to help with it for others!
here today, i've done three installs (today alone) with this same issue that has happened each time!
install one - fresh location, posted DNN 4.8.4 Install.zip package files by ftp, created blank sql2005 database new, stepped through install wizard in typical mode which installed all steps correctly. result was this error:
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewriteModule.RewriteUrl(HttpApplication app) +378
DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewriteModule.OnBeginRequest(Object s, EventArgs e) +1180
System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +92
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +64
install two - another fresh location, posted DNN 4.8.3 Install.zip package files by ftp, created blank new sql2005 database, stepped through install wizard in customized mode, stepped throgh all steps correctly. at end of successful install wizard, clicked to go to home page of site with the following error. tried updating the web.config to restart the app, rebooted the server, did a repair of permissions on the folders, rebooted again, all no help, still same error
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewriteModule.RewriteUrl(HttpApplication app) +378
DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewriteModule.OnBeginRequest(Object s, EventArgs e) +1180
System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +92
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +64
third install I'm now wiping away and going to try to use an intermedia (the host) auto install script and will go from there... their script is 4.8.2 and auto connects to their shared DB, but will try it to rule out that it's not an issue with permissions, etc since i'll be able to compare it's autobuilt structure to the manual install. will reply back with notes if successful.
still, though, have two others in limbo regardless. with each of them, it's stuck at that first load up of the home page... tried a couple of things like:
- rehitting the install/install.aspx and install/installwizard.aspx to see if they'd kick off extra install steps
- tried updating the web.config with blank space at end to kick the app to restart
- tried Brandon Haynes's (Haynes' ? i always get that wrong on s ending names) debug dlls to see if i could get more verbose stack trace, but not fruitful in this instance/case
- tried reupload of all files/folders to make sure there wasn't a missed/corrupted file from first upload