Hi Harvey and welcome to our :)

Have you consulted the issue tracker in order to see if anything has been reported about such issue on Umbraco 6.1.5? http://issues.umbraco.org/issues?q=%236.1.5&p=0&f=false

I just had a quick glance but it does not seem anything has been reported about such issue as mentioned above as far as I can tell.

Have you checked the /app_data/logs file to see if it reveals anything marked with ERROR or WARNING related to the issue? And have you had a look in the browser console log too to see if it reveals anything?

/Jan

Thanks for your quick reply Jan. I wasn't aware of issues.umbraco.org so I just had a check, I couldn't  find any issues related to my problem either.

There's nothing at all being reported in the /app_data/logs when I try publishing. For the first time I took a look at the browser console and nothing was reported in there either when I published, however this was in Firefox.

I figured I needed to also test in Chrome to see if the same endless publishing loop occurs in it, and it's the same problem. Except in the browser console, this message pops up:

GET http://domain.local/umbraco/RestServices/BulkPublish/PublishDocument/ 404 (Not Found)

It turns out that I had the NET option in FF unticked so no NET information was being shown in the console. FF also told me that this URL had a 301 redirect from http://domain.local/umbraco/RestServices/BulkPublish/PublishDocument to http://domain.local/umbraco/RestServices/BulkPublish/PublishDocument/ where it was then 404ing.

A Google of that error gave this URL where someone was getting a similar error:

http://our.umbraco.org/forum/ourumb-dev-forum/bugs/46585-Rest-BulkPublish-PublishDocument-500-error

But I don't think that this error is related.

It appears that I'm missing a file, but Googling around hasn't helped.

Hi Harvey

Ok, so have you checked to see if the file is missing from the folder on your disk? It must be for some reason. Don't know if it's due to some .gitignore issue if you're using GIT/Mercurial repositories?

If you go to /umbraco/RestServices/ and the file is not there it should be a matter of downloading Umbraco 6.1.5 and find the file and add it to your solution from your download.

Hope this helps.

/Jan

Hey again Jan.

We only recently received this website after another company worked on it, so there's no telling what files they didn't commit to the repo.

Also there isnt a folder under /umbraco/RestServices/, even in a freshly downloaded version. However I agree that some file must be missing if I'm getting a 404. I'll have a look around to see if there are any files missing.

Thanks for the help, I'll post a solution if I find one.

FYI, anything under RestServices would likely be a REST web service, and so probably wouldn't have a file on the file system. Rather, it would be a virtual path created with an MVC route.

Based on this source code: https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS/blob/3bb61294e9ab55eddb6f9c6202663e4a0184988b/src/Umbraco.Web/WebServices/BulkPublishController.cs

I would expect that a GET would fail (notice the action method is marked as HttpPost, which means it will only respond to POST requests and not GET requests). Not sure what is trying to perform a GET at that URL, but I would expect it to fail.

Just an update to this issue, upgrading to version 6.2.5 does not fix bulk publishing problem. I have a feeling that the problem may lie in one of the packages which the installation uses, the installed plugins are:

• CmsImport
• CultivSearchEngineSitemap
• FamFamFam Icon Package
• Locator Razor style
• uComponents
• uDateFoldersy
• Umbraco Contour
• Url Tracker
• XSLTsearch

If I ever find the answer to this, I will post here.

I figured it out! I noticed that the UrlRewriting.config file in the Config folder had a rewrite which adds a trailing slash to all URLs. This messed up all of Umbracos Rest Services as the application was always being redirected to the wrong place, here's the code that was used:

<add name="addTrailingSlash"
                virtualUrl="^~/([^.|\?]*[^/])(\?.*)?$"
                rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
                destinationUrl="~/$1/$2"
                ignoreCase="true"
                redirect="Application"
                redirectMode="Permanent"/>

Commenting out this code instantly fixed the bulk publishing problem.

I also found that trying to save a Template through Umbraco would not work because it was also going through a Rest Service.

Thanks for the help everyone.

I had the same problem with a rule in the web.config file using the IIS UrlRewrite module. The original rule was as follows:

<rule name="AddTrailingSlashRule" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="(.*[^/])$" />
    <conditions>
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="(.*?)\.[a-zA-Z]{1,4}$" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^[Bb]ase/(.*)" negate="true" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />
</rule>

Which I amended as follows to address the problem:

<rule name="AddTrailingSlashRule" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="(.*[^/])$" />
    <conditions>
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="(.*?)\.[a-zA-Z]{1,4}$" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/[Bb]ase/(.*)" negate="true" />

        <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/[Uu]mbraco/[Rr]est[Ss]ervices/(.*)" negate="true" />

    </conditions>
    <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}/" />
</rule>

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