Hi Bo

Yeah the sitemap provider stuff has nothing to do with the issue you're seeing. It's just throwing a lot of errors and I'm not sure why. So I felt pretty pleased when my pull request to remove it was accepted at CG13 :D - The reason for having it was something with Sharepoint...yada yada...blah blah...

BUT have you made sure you have set

/Jan

First thing id check and double check are the spellings of the hostnames and that its set to port 80.

Also check that the dns is resolving to your IP address with either nslookup or ping.

I would also probably stick a static html page in the root of the site and browse to that on the domain to check if its iis or umbraco thats at fault.

Just re-read and it looks like it is getting to your iis site so double check the spellings in the umbraco hostnames and that you dont have any dodgy characters or spaces in there or something.

One other thing that springs to mind is could your iis be forcing the culture to english and it not getting routed to the domain because of that?

Good points Damian - The reason I mention the useDomainPrefix setting is because if it's not set to true Umbraco will serve the first website if it hits a site that is not found. It should throw a 404 instead, but only if the setting is set to true. Also I think it's a best practice since it eliminates the risk of serving duplicate content.

But yes, it's probably a misspelling somewhere...and is the DNS changed already or still pointing to the old IP?

/Jan

Hi Jan and Damian,

Thanks for chiming in! :-)

Jan: yup, I'm sure that setting is set to true.

Damian: I just made a quick test, placing a HTML page in the root of the website which is displayed when entered in the browser.

I've doublechecked name and spelling and it's alright both in Umbraco and on IIS.

The "funny" thing is, I can set up a subdomain site like so: mysite.mymainsite.com and it displays right away, so I guess, after all, that it's not either Umbracos fault or IIS's. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the domain having a 'æ' in it? The domain is www.

When I ping the domain, it displays the right IP adress, so... :-) It's definitely pointing to the right place, just not "picked up", it seems.

Ok, sounds like a character issue then...I don't suppose writing æg.dk helps? (Long shot I know).

/Jan

Will you believe it :-) The reason why it was not picked up by Umbraco was, that when it contains special characters like æøå, it has to be entered like so: xn--domain-p0a.dk There went a good 3 hours and a pile of gray hair ;-)

All the other domains were working so i was pretty sure the hostnames settings was ok.

What were the findings on the culture?

The funny character also may be an issue. Is that character in the ignore file in umbraco and getting converted so not hitting the hostname?

<char org=" ">-</char>
  <char org="&quot;"></char>
  <char org="'"></char>
  <char org="%"></char>
  <char org="."></char>
  <char org=";"></char>
  <char org="/"></char>
  <char org="\"></char>
  <char org=":"></char>
  <char org="#"></char>
  <char org="+">plus</char>
  <char org="*">star</char>
  <char org="&amp;"></char>
  <char org="?"></char>
  <char org="æ">ae</char>
  <char org="ø">oe</char>
  <char org="å">aa</char>
  <char org="ä">ae</char>
  <char org="ö">oe</char>
  <char org="ü">ue</char>
  <char org="ß">ss</char>
  <char org="Ä">ae</char>
  <char org="Ö">oe</char>
  <char org="|">-</char>
  <char org="&lt;"></char>
  <char org="&gt;"></char>

Damian: I see! It's there :-)

<char org="æ">ae</char>

So bascially, I could've just removed it from there aswell, or?

Anyway, it works now when I entered the ... not-so readable URL in Umbraco hostnames ;-)

Hi Bo

Ah yes of course! That actually does make sense.

Usually I urge our clients to simply have domains containing æ, ø or å 301 redirect to the main domain without these characters to avoid issue like the above. So having aeg.dk as the main domain and then æg.dk to just 301 redirect to aeg.dk instead.

Think there are also some issues with these characters across browser, mail clients etc. etc.

Just my 2 cents.

/Jan

You cant go wrong with a .co.uk domain! ;)

Never done anything with a domain like that before so glad i got involved in this. Something to watch out for.

Glad you got it sorted.

Damian

Jan: and I fully agree :-) I might aswell make that a practice myself, seems simpler.

Damian: that would be way easier, but we "suffer" from the nordic æøå-curse o'er here :-D

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