Adam Marzi 7 posts 27 karma points

Jul 22, 2012 @ 16:13

Starter Kit Did Not Work

Installing umbraco

Hi,

I'm new to Umbraco so I apologize in advance if I'm missing something. I installed Umbraco 4.7 using the Web Platform Installer. When the site ran for the first time it asked me to choose a Starter Kit (Simple, Blog, Business, Personal) and I chose Business. However when I run the site (http://localhost/umbraco1/config/splashes/noNodes.aspx, the only page that I can successfully navigate to) I am stuck with the default orange Umbraco page where "there's still work to do". Further, when I am in the admi area (http://localhost/umbraco1/umbraco/umbraco.aspx#content) I see a "Make it look great" section with these same 4 starter kits. When I click any one of them I get a 404 page that displays a problem with the "IIS Web Core" module.

What am I missing? I would hate to join the masses of people who get frustrated with Umbraco and give up; from what I've read it's worth working through these issues.

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Adam Marzi 7 posts 27 karma points

Jul 22, 2012 @ 16:30

And thought I'd install a 2nd site to try again from scratch but recieved a standard 404 page when WPI took me to: http://localhost/umbraco2/install/default.aspx.

I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium, IIS (not express), SQL Server 2008 R2 Express (not CE), with Firefox as my default browser.

Any help would be much appreciated. On to my 3rd try...

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Adam Marzi 7 posts 27 karma points

Jul 22, 2012 @ 16:52

And on the 3rd try I got all the way through to the point where I chose my Starter Kit (I chose Simple) and the Skin (Designit Green). On the 6th step of the installation (You're Done), I clicked "Preview your new website" and BOOM! Object not set to an instance of an object error:

Server Error in '/umbraco3' Application.

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:

 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:

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   umbraco.cms.businesslogic.macro.MacroModel..ctor(Macro m) +21
   umbraco.macro..ctor(String alias) +344
   umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Macro.CreateChildControls() +1319
   System.Web.UI.Control.EnsureChildControls() +181
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +132
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) +420
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1969

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.272

Request Details
Session Id:	ed0qbhzijjmq4zpav2kuuzar	Request Type:	GET
Time of Request:	7/22/2012 9:47:28 AM	Status Code:	500
Request Encoding:	Unicode (UTF-8)	Response Encoding:	Unicode (UTF-8)

Trace Information
Category	Message	From First(s)	From Last(s)
umbracoGlobalsettings	reserverd urls: '/umbraco3/config/splashes/booting.aspx,/umbraco3/config/splashes/nonodes.aspx,/umbraco3/install/,/umbraco3/umbraco/,'
aspx.page	Begin PreInit	0.383368260662979	0.383368
umbracoInit	handling request	0.389499363535575	0.006131
request handler	current url ''	0.418522287986954	0.029023
umbracoRequestHandler	xpath: '/root/*'	0.434729399963631	0.016207
umbracoRequestHandler	xpath: '/root/* [@urlName = ""] \| /root/*'	0.434790626668153	0.000061
umbracoRequestHandler	xpath: '/root/* [@urlName = ""] \| /root/*'	0.434807858135893	0.000017
umbracoRequestHandler	Just before xPath query (False, '/root/* [@urlName = ""] \| /root/*')	0.434835721785855	0.000028
umbracoRequestHandler	pageXPathQueryStart: '/root'	0.434848920356889	0.000013
umbracoRequestHandler	After xPath query	0.434898781625243	0.000050
umbracoRequestHandler	Access checking started	0.435555777161193	0.000657
umbracoRequestHandler	Page not protected	0.440514406973538	0.004959
umbracoRequestHandler	Access checking ended	0.44055950209124	0.000045
umbracoInit	Done handling request	0.440576000305034	0.000016
umbracoPage	Pagedata loaded for Simple website (ID: 1050, Version: d5029868-523f-4ed4-b06d-76d06d14f2fa)	0.820559927378529	0.379984
umbracoPage	Looking up skin information	0.821427366797088	0.000867
aspx.page	End PreInit	1.78548032533011	0.964053
aspx.page	Begin Init	1.78552908671754	0.000049
Unhandled Execution Error	Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at umbraco.cms.businesslogic.macro.MacroModel..ctor(Macro m) at umbraco.macro..ctor(String alias) at umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Macro.CreateChildControls() at System.Web.UI.Control.EnsureChildControls() at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)	1.83262892070885	0.047100

Control Tree
Control UniqueID	Type	Render Size Bytes (including children)	ViewState Size Bytes (excluding children)	ControlState Size Bytes (excluding children)
__Page	ASP.default_aspx	0	0	0
ctl00	ASP.masterpages_umbhomepage_master	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00	ASP.masterpages_umbmaster_master	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00	ASP.umbraco_masterpages_default_master	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault	System.Web.UI.WebControls.ContentPlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl07	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$head	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlHead	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl00	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlMeta	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl01	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlTitle	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl02	System.Web.UI.WebControls.PlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl03	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Item	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl08	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl04	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Item	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl05	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlLink	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl06	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Macro	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_head	System.Web.UI.WebControls.ContentPlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl09	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top	System.Web.UI.WebControls.ContentPlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl03	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl00	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Item	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl04	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl01	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Item	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl05	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl02	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Macro	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_top$ctl06	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl10	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
RunwayMasterForm	System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl11	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_content	System.Web.UI.WebControls.ContentPlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_content$ctl01	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_content$ctl00	umbraco.presentation.templateControls.Item	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_content$ctl02	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl12	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl13	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_footer	System.Web.UI.WebControls.ContentPlaceHolder	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$cp_footer$ctl00	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0
ctl00$ctl00$ctl00$ContentPlaceHolderDefault$ctl14	System.Web.UI.LiteralControl	0	0	0

Session State
Session Key	Type	Value
UmbracoLiveEditingMode	System.Boolean	True

Application State
Application Key	Type	Value
umbracoUrl	System.String	localhost:2103/umbraco3/umbraco
umbracoNeedConfiguration	System.Boolean	False

Request Cookies Collection
Name	Value	Size
UMB_UCONTEXT	5129ecda-70a5-4eda-9683-9d6e00c0a472	49
UMB_UPDCHK	1	12
UMB_PREVIEW	f94013d2-9a6c-440c-ae15-9818b78b38b1	48
ASP.NET_SessionId	ed0qbhzijjmq4zpav2kuuzar	42

Response Cookies Collection
Name	Value	Size
UMB_PREVIEW		12

Headers Collection
Name	Value
Connection	keep-alive
Accept	text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8
Accept-Encoding	gzip, deflate
Accept-Language	en-us,en;q=0.5
Cookie	UMB_UCONTEXT=5129ecda-70a5-4eda-9683-9d6e00c0a472; UMB_UPDCHK=1; UMB_PREVIEW=f94013d2-9a6c-440c-ae15-9818b78b38b1; ASP.NET_SessionId=ed0qbhzijjmq4zpav2kuuzar
Host	localhost:2103
Referer	http://localhost:2103/umbraco3/install/?installStep=theend
User-Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1

Response Headers Collection
Name	Value
X-AspNet-Version	4.0.30319
Cache-Control	private
Content-Type	text/html

Form Collection
Name	Value

Querystring Collection
Name	Value
umbSkinning	true
umbSkinningConfigurator	true

Server Variables
Name	Value
ALL_HTTP	HTTP_CONNECTION:keep-alive HTTP_ACCEPT:text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8 HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING:gzip, deflate HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE:en-us,en;q=0.5 HTTP_COOKIE:UMB_UCONTEXT=5129ecda-70a5-4eda-9683-9d6e00c0a472; UMB_UPDCHK=1; UMB_PREVIEW=f94013d2-9a6c-440c-ae15-9818b78b38b1; ASP.NET_SessionId=ed0qbhzijjmq4zpav2kuuzar HTTP_HOST:localhost:2103 HTTP_REFERER:http://localhost:2103/umbraco3/install/?installStep=theend HTTP_USER_AGENT:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
ALL_RAW	Connection: keep-alive Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Cookie: UMB_UCONTEXT=5129ecda-70a5-4eda-9683-9d6e00c0a472; UMB_UPDCHK=1; UMB_PREVIEW=f94013d2-9a6c-440c-ae15-9818b78b38b1; ASP.NET_SessionId=ed0qbhzijjmq4zpav2kuuzar Host: localhost:2103 Referer: http://localhost:2103/umbraco3/install/?installStep=theend User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1
APPL_MD_PATH	/LM/W3SVC/4/ROOT/umbraco3
APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH	C:\Projects\umbraco3\umbraco3\
AUTH_TYPE
AUTH_USER
AUTH_PASSWORD
LOGON_USER
REMOTE_USER
CERT_COOKIE
CERT_FLAGS
CERT_ISSUER
CERT_KEYSIZE
CERT_SECRETKEYSIZE
CERT_SERIALNUMBER
CERT_SERVER_ISSUER
CERT_SERVER_SUBJECT
CERT_SUBJECT
CONTENT_LENGTH	0
CONTENT_TYPE
GATEWAY_INTERFACE	CGI/1.1
HTTPS	off
HTTPS_KEYSIZE
HTTPS_SECRETKEYSIZE
HTTPS_SERVER_ISSUER
HTTPS_SERVER_SUBJECT
INSTANCE_ID	4
INSTANCE_META_PATH	/LM/W3SVC/4
LOCAL_ADDR	::1
PATH_INFO	/umbraco3/
PATH_TRANSLATED	C:\Projects\umbraco3\umbraco3\
QUERY_STRING	umbSkinning=true&umbSkinningConfigurator=true
REMOTE_ADDR	::1
REMOTE_HOST	::1
REMOTE_PORT	51847
REQUEST_METHOD	GET
SCRIPT_NAME	/umbraco3/
SERVER_NAME	localhost
SERVER_PORT	2103
SERVER_PORT_SECURE	0
SERVER_PROTOCOL	HTTP/1.1
SERVER_SOFTWARE	Microsoft-IIS/7.5
URL	/umbraco3/
HTTP_CONNECTION	keep-alive
HTTP_ACCEPT	text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING	gzip, deflate
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE	en-us,en;q=0.5
HTTP_COOKIE	UMB_UCONTEXT=5129ecda-70a5-4eda-9683-9d6e00c0a472; UMB_UPDCHK=1; UMB_PREVIEW=f94013d2-9a6c-440c-ae15-9818b78b38b1; ASP.NET_SessionId=ed0qbhzijjmq4zpav2kuuzar
HTTP_HOST	localhost:2103
HTTP_REFERER	http://localhost:2103/umbraco3/install/?installStep=theend
HTTP_USER_AGENT	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1

Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.272

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Tom Fulton 2030 posts 4998 karma points c-trib

Aug 10, 2012 @ 05:29

Hi Adam,

This reply might be a little late, but the issue isn't anything you missed, it's a bug with the Simple Starter Kit that is missing a macro.

Here's a blog post explaining the solution: http://www.carbonsoft.co.uk/articles/2012/07/umbraco-simple-starter-kit-object-not-set-error.aspx

Hope this helps,
Tom

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Starter Kit Did Not Work

Server Error in '/umbraco3' Application.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Request Details

Trace Information

Control Tree

Session State

Application State

Request Cookies Collection

Response Cookies Collection

Headers Collection

Response Headers Collection

Form Collection

Querystring Collection

Server Variables