Recently I've started getting this issue where the home page turn completely blank. For eg. http://localhost/ is blank, but when I enter my site's root document's name for eg. http://localhost/sitename.aspx I get the page.
My site structure is of the form
Content
Roster
Photo Galleries
Sitename
Site Section 1
Site Section 2 . .
documents
Events
Somehow, umbraco has forgotten that sitename is the "default" page. The other nodes, for eg. 'Roster', 'Photo Galleries',etc. are placeholders for content documents that I'm planning on reusing for another site to be deployed on the same instance. These nodes have no template.
I read on the forums that this might be due to bad indexing, so I tried deleting the data/_systemUmbracoIndexDontDelete/* contents and running the umbraco/reindex.aspx page. However, that screen freezes at 0%, so I ended up reverting my index.
Is there any way of letting umbraco automatically use "Sitename" as the default document? Thanks in advance!
You could use the 'umbracoUrlName' property to overwrite the url of 'Sitename'. If you put '/' in that property it should show up when you enter http://localhost
The first node in your tree is considered to be the "Home" node, just move the Sitename node to the top of the tree and it should start rendering it out again at http://localhost/
I am having a similar problem (complete newbie to Umbraco, btw). I installed 4.7 on server with Windows Server 7, IIS 7.5, SQL Server, using Firefox browser. After finally getting past the issues with not being able to find UrlRewriterNet.UrlRewriter modules (by installing with a starter kit), I can only see my home page by clicking on the preview button. The home page is being rendered with a URL of '\' in the properties section, but preview loads it under http://localhost/1050.aspx (1050 is the id assigned to the homepage in umbraco's content section). If I click on the Home link from any of the other pages (all textpages), I get a blank page with the IIS7 logo.
Blank home page
Hi,
Recently I've started getting this issue where the home page turn completely blank. For eg. http://localhost/ is blank, but when I enter my site's root document's name for eg. http://localhost/sitename.aspx I get the page.
My site structure is of the form
Content
.
.
Somehow, umbraco has forgotten that sitename is the "default" page. The other nodes, for eg. 'Roster', 'Photo Galleries',etc. are placeholders for content documents that I'm planning on reusing for another site to be deployed on the same instance. These nodes have no template.
I read on the forums that this might be due to bad indexing, so I tried deleting the data/_systemUmbracoIndexDontDelete/* contents and running the umbraco/reindex.aspx page. However, that screen freezes at 0%, so I ended up reverting my index.
Is there any way of letting umbraco automatically use "Sitename" as the default document? Thanks in advance!
You could use the 'umbracoUrlName' property to overwrite the url of 'Sitename'.
If you put '/' in that property it should show up when you enter http://localhost
The first node in your tree is considered to be the "Home" node, just move the Sitename node to the top of the tree and it should start rendering it out again at http://localhost/
Thanks for the reply guys.
@kipusoep: I forgot to mention that this was the first thing I tried when I got this issue and it didn't work in my case.
Peter's idea nailed it. Thanks again.
I am having a similar problem (complete newbie to Umbraco, btw). I installed 4.7 on server with Windows Server 7, IIS 7.5, SQL Server, using Firefox browser. After finally getting past the issues with not being able to find UrlRewriterNet.UrlRewriter modules (by installing with a starter kit), I can only see my home page by clicking on the preview button. The home page is being rendered with a URL of '\' in the properties section, but preview loads it under http://localhost/1050.aspx (1050 is the id assigned to the homepage in umbraco's content section). If I click on the Home link from any of the other pages (all textpages), I get a blank page with the IIS7 logo.
Thoughts?
is working on a reply...