So i'm really excited about Umbraco and have been trying to play with it for a week. So far, I have been nothing but frustrated. I installed il locally using WebMatrix. Everything smooth so far. Then I go to select a starter kit (using CE db). I simply cannot get the blog/peronal/business starter kits to work. The site will be created, but i will get XSLT parse errors, or if I go to the umbraco management page, I get the Comments table issues.
I have tried extending timeout, etc, creating starter kit form developer tree, etc. Even downloading the blog package and installing. No satisfaction.
I was really hoping this would have been more smooth.
Not having a good experience
So i'm really excited about Umbraco and have been trying to play with it for a week. So far, I have been nothing but frustrated. I installed il locally using WebMatrix. Everything smooth so far. Then I go to select a starter kit (using CE db). I simply cannot get the blog/peronal/business starter kits to work. The site will be created, but i will get XSLT parse errors, or if I go to the umbraco management page, I get the Comments table issues.
I have tried extending timeout, etc, creating starter kit form developer tree, etc. Even downloading the blog package and installing. No satisfaction.
I was really hoping this would have been more smooth.
Anyone else experiencing this?
This is what I had to do get a completely error-free installation: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/getting-started/installing-umbraco/20111-Installation-times-out-when-selecting-Personal-site-starter-kit
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This is the only way I could get the Personal site installed without error.
1. Install Umbraco.
2. Run setup without installing starter kit.
3. Manually add the "Comment" table to the database to prevent runtime error.
4. Increase the executionTimeout value of the httpRuntime node in the web.config file to prevent timeout during package installation.
5. Install Personal site starter kit from the "Developer" tree.
6. Whew!
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Thanks cbae. I did follow your steps, except for creating the table. how did you do this? I'm using the SQL CE 4 db.
What value did you set executionTimeout to?
You have to create the table manually through the table designer in WebMatrix. The schema can be found in this post: http://our.umbraco.org/forum/getting-started/installing-umbraco/18522-47x-new-install-error-Error-running-Reader
The table structure will depend on the starter kit that you choose.
As for the execution timeout, this is how I have it configured:
<httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" executionTimeout="43200" maxRequestLength="104856" />
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