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  • Adam Marzi 7 posts 27 karma points
    Jul 22, 2012 @ 16:13
    Adam Marzi
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    Starter Kit Did Not Work

    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.  

  • Adam Marzi 7 posts 27 karma points
    Jul 22, 2012 @ 16:30
    Adam Marzi
    0

    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...

  • Adam Marzi 7 posts 27 karma points
    Jul 22, 2012 @ 16:52
    Adam Marzi
    0

    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

    CategoryMessageFrom 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 UniqueIDTypeRender 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 KeyTypeValue
    UmbracoLiveEditingMode System.Boolean True

    Application State

    Application KeyTypeValue
    umbracoUrl System.String localhost:2103/umbraco3/umbraco
    umbracoNeedConfiguration System.Boolean False

    Request Cookies Collection

    NameValueSize
    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

    NameValueSize
    UMB_PREVIEW   12

    Headers Collection

    NameValue
    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

    NameValue
    X-AspNet-Version 4.0.30319
    Cache-Control private
    Content-Type text/html

    Form Collection

    NameValue

    Querystring Collection

    NameValue
    umbSkinning true
    umbSkinningConfigurator true

    Server Variables

    NameValue
    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    
  • Tom Fulton 2030 posts 4998 karma points c-trib
    Aug 10, 2012 @ 05:29
    Tom Fulton
    0

    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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