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DotNetNuke 7.4 Hosting - HostForLIFE.eu :: How To Install DotNetNuke 7 on your PC?

clock March 31, 2016 20:01 by author Anthony

DotNetNuke is a web application framework that is open source using VB.NET language. Application of CMS can be expanded through the use of modules and skins so this application is used to create, deploy, and set up intranets, extranets and websites. DotNetNuke Professional Edition include the addition of security, stability, and support of products and applications warranty, and is available in a cheaper price than other applications.

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Moreover DotNetNuke is very easy to install on your PC. So the discussion this time. I will discuss how to install DotNetNuke on your PC. In general, DotNetNuke installation process does not take more than 15 minutes. But if you encounter an error, please check the back, make sure you have meet the minumum requirements for hardware and software you have to install DotNetNuke.

How To Install DotNetNuke 7 on your PC?

  • Create a folder on a Web server where DotNetNuke will be executed. For example, in this manual use the folder C: \ DotNetNuke, however, you can choose the location and name of the other. Set permission on this folder so that IIS uses the account "Full Control".

If IIS has not got the permissions "Full Control", right click on the root folder. Click "Sharing and Security" followed by the Security tab. If the Security tab does not exist, you have to "turn off" file sharing simply by choosing Tools> Folder Options, and then click the View tab. Uncheck the option "Use simple file sharing" and click OK. You can now right-click the root folder and access the Security tab

On the Security tab, tick-related accounts that have permissions "Full Control" to this folder (Windows XP using the account ASPNET and other editions of Windows using the account NETWORK SERVICE).

  • If you are using SQL Server, it is necessary to configure the DotNetNuke order to access the database. To do this open the file C: \ DotNetNuke \ web.config using Notepad application.

 Note : If you use the SQL Express configuration, there is no need for additional configuration INSTALL package is configured to use SQL Express by default.

  • Remove the following line at the connectionStrings:
    <Add name = "SiteSqlServer" connectionString = "Data Source =. \ SQLExpress; AttachDBFilename = | DataDirectory | Database.mdf; Integrated Security = True; User Instance = True" providerName = "System.Data.SqlClient" />
  • Delete this line in the appSettings:
    <Add key = "SiteSqlServer" value = "Data Source" =. \ SQLExpress; AttachDBFilename = | DataDirectory | Database.mdf; Integrated Security = True; User Instance = True "/>
  • Delete and edit the following line in the connectionStrings section to match the host name Database server and access your identity:
    <Add name = "SiteSqlServer" connectionString = "Server = (local); Database = DotNetNuke; uid =; pwd =;" providerName = "System.Data.SqlClient" />
  • Delete and edit the following line in the appSettings section to match the host name Database server and access your identity:
    <Add key = "SiteSqlServer" value = "Server = (local); Database = DotNetNuke; uid =; pwd =;" />
  • Save and close the web.config file. You can also store backup files with names web.config.bak as a precaution when the installation process fails and you need to start over.
  • Open the IIS Management Console application Start> Control Panel> Administrative Tools and expand Default Web Site. Create a new Virtual Directory named DotNetNuke then navigate to the folder C:\DotNetNuke. You can choose another name for the Virtual Directory liking (if you do, it needs to be adjusted on the instruction "DotNetNuke Wizard")

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Umbraco 7.2.8 Hosting UK - HostForLIFE.eu :: How to Create a Comment Form using MVC in Umbraco

clock October 7, 2015 13:04 by author Rebecca

In this tutorial, I'll show you how to create a comment form using MVC in Umbraco. Many people had a lot of trouble working out how to create forms in Umbraco because a lot of the documentation around is either for an old version of Umbraco, using a third party library or just not very helpful!

So, we're going to start off with creating a partial view in the 'Partials' folder within the 'Views' folder, we'll then add the basic code needed to render the form and link it to a custom surface controller that we'll create in the 'App_Code' folder.

Step 1: Create the partial

Create a partial view in the 'Partials' folder located under the 'Views' folder and name it 'ContactForm' this will be where the GUI part of the form is located, it'll also be what's called from our view page to render the form.

Step 2: Adding the form

To create forms in MVC you can use a neat way of adding elements instead of writing the HTML, for example we can use 'LabelFor', 'EditorFor' and 'ValidationMessageFor' pretty neat right? All of these are preceded by '@Html.' because they're located under the 'Html' class.

See my example below and paste it into a partial view called 'CommentForm' to get started.

    @inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage
    @{
        Layout = null;
    }
    
    @using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm("SubmitComment", "CommentFormSurface"))
    {
      @Html.LabelFor(x => Model.Name)
      @Html.EditorFor(x => Model.Name)
      @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => Model.Name)
    
      @Html.LabelFor(x => Model.Email)
      @Html.EditorFor(x => Model.Email)
      @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => Model.Email)
    
      @Html.LabelFor(x => Model.Comment)
      @Html.EditorFor(x => Model.Comment)
      @Html.ValidationMessageFor(x => Model.Comment)

This is esseintially the form that people will see and use on our website, it is linked to a model and controller which we will create in step three by means of an inherits statement in the first line which calls the 'CommentFormModel'.

Step 3: Setting up the model and controller

To create the model and controller, you need to create a new class file in the 'App_Code' folder and call it 'CommentController', within this file, you'll add the model and surface controller for your form, copy and paste the below code into the class file to get started.

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Net.Mail;
    using System.Text;
    using System.Web;
    using System.Web.Mvc;
    using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
    using umbraco.BusinessLogic;
    using umbraco.cms.businesslogic.web;
    
    namespace LukeAlderton
    {
        ///
        /// Comment form controller deals with all comment systems
        ///
        public class CommentFormSurfaceController : SurfaceController
        {
            [HttpPost]
            public ActionResult SubmitComment(CommentFormModel model)
            {
                //model not valid, do not save, but return current umbraco page
                if (!ModelState.IsValid)
                {       
                    return CurrentUmbracoPage();
                }
    
                // Create the comment and add then data then publish it
                User author = new User(0);
                Document comment = Document.MakeNew(model.Name, DocumentType.GetByAlias("uBlogsyComment"), author, CurrentPage.Children.First().Id);
                comment.getProperty("uBlogsyCommentName").Value = model.Name;
                comment.getProperty("uBlogsyCommentEmail").Value = model.Email;
                comment.getProperty("uBlogsyCommentWebsite").Value = model.Website;
                comment.getProperty("uBlogsyCommentMessage").Value = model.Comment;
                comment.Publish(author);
                umbraco.library.UpdateDocumentCache(comment.Id);
    
                // Add date to the page
                //TempData.Add("SubmissionMessage", "Your comment was successfully submitted");
    
                // Redirect to current page to clear the form
                return RedirectToCurrentUmbracoPage();
    
                // Redirect to specific page
                //return RedirectToUmbracoPage(2525);
            }
        }
    
        public class CommentFormModel
        {
            [Required]
            [Display(Name = "Name")]
            public string Name { get; set; }
    
            [Required]
            [RegularExpression(@"^(([A-Za-z0-9]+_+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\-+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\.+)|([A-Za-z0-9]+\++))*[A-Za-z0-9]+@((\w+\-+)|(\w+\.))*\w{1,63}\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}$", ErrorMessage = "Invalid Email Address")]
            public string Email { get; set; }
    
            [DataType(DataType.Url)]
            public string Website { get; set; }
    
            [Required]
            [DataType(DataType.MultilineText)]
            public string Comment { get; set; }
        }
    }


This controller is designed to replace the comment function of the uBlogsy comment system which adds a node under the post, within the comments node.

The top class called 'CommentFormSurfaceController' is the surface controller and it handles everything that happens after the form has been submitted, in our case we call the method 'SubmitComment' to add a comment to the post via it.

The lower class called 'CommentFormModel' is our view model and it handles the variables available to us and what they should be displayed as, this model has four variables which can all be accessed via 'model.variablename'.
Step Four: Using the form

To Use the form you simply add the following line into any view in your website:

    @Html.Partial("CommentForm",new LukeAlderton.CommentFormModel())

It's as simple as that!

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Umbraco 7.2.8 Hosting France - HostForLIFE.eu :: How to Use Standard Conventions to Create Simple Costum Tree

clock August 21, 2015 07:22 by author Rebecca

This article will explain how to create a simple custom tree an angular editor & dialog using standard conventions. This article doesn't go into detail about how to persist data in your editors, it is a simple tutorial defining how routing interacts with your views and where your views need to be stored.

So all the steps we will go through:

  •     Creating a tree with a menu item
  •     Create an editor
  •     Create a dialog for the menu item

Create a Tree

Step 1

First you need to define a tree class that inherits from Umbraco.Web.Trees.TreeController:

public class MyCustomTreeController : TreeController
{
}

The name of your tree must be suffixed with the term 'Controller'.

Step 2

Next we need to add some attributes to the tree. The first one defines the section it belongs to, the tree alias and it's name. Ensure your tree alias is unique, tree aliases cannot overlap.

[Tree("settings", "myTree", "My Tree")]

The 2nd attribute does 2 things - Tells Umbraco how to route the tree and tells Umbraco where to find the view files. This attribute is not required but if you do not specify it then the view location conventions will not work.

[PluginController("MyPackage")]

There are 2 methods that need to be overriden from the TreeController class: GetTreeNodes & GetMenuForNode. This example will create 3 nodes underneath the root node:

protected override TreeNodeCollection GetTreeNodes(string id, FormDataCollection queryStrings)
{
    //check if we're rendering the root node's children
    if (id == Constants.System.Root.ToInvariantString())
    {
        var tree = new TreeNodeCollection
            {
                CreateTreeNode("1", queryStrings, "My Node 1"),
                CreateTreeNode("2", queryStrings, "My Node 2"),
                CreateTreeNode("3", queryStrings, "My Node 3")
            };               
        return tree;
    }
    //this tree doesn't suport rendering more than 1 level
    throw new NotSupportedException();
}

Step 3

Next we'll create a menu item for each node, in this case its a 'Create' menu item

protected override MenuItemCollection GetMenuForNode(string id, FormDataCollection queryStrings)
{
    var menu = new MenuItemCollection();
    menu.AddMenuItem(new MenuItem("create", "Create"));
    return menu;
}


That's it, the whole tree looks like this:

[Tree("settings", "myTree", "My Tree")]
[PluginController("MyPackage")]
public class MyCustomTreeController : TreeController
{
    protected override TreeNodeCollection GetTreeNodes(string id, FormDataCollection queryStrings)
    {
        //check if we're rendering the root node's children
        if (id == Constants.System.Root.ToInvariantString())
        {
            var tree = new TreeNodeCollection
            {
                CreateTreeNode("1", queryStrings, "My Node 1"),
                CreateTreeNode("2", queryStrings, "My Node 2"),
                CreateTreeNode("3", queryStrings, "My Node 3")
            };
            return tree;
        }
        //this tree doesn't suport rendering more than 1 level
        throw new NotSupportedException();
    }
    protected override MenuItemCollection GetMenuForNode(string id, FormDataCollection queryStrings)
    {
        var menu = new MenuItemCollection();
        menu.AddMenuItem(new MenuItem("create", "Create"));
        return menu;
    }
}

Create an Editor

An editor is simply an angular view (html file) so you can really do whatever you'd like! This tutorial will simply create a hello world editor showing the id of the item being edited.

Create a controller

First thing we'll do is create an angular controller for the editor, this controller will be contained in a file found beside the view - the file naming conventions are based on the controller file naming conventions in the Umbraco core.

/App_Plugins/MyPackage/BackOffice/MyTree/mypackage.mytree.edit.controller.js

The controller is super simple, at it is going to do is assign a property to the $scope which shows the current item id being edited:

'use strict';
(function () {
    //create the controller
    function myTreeEditController($scope, $routeParams) {
        //set a property on the scope equal to the current route id
        $scope.id = $routeParams.id;
    };
    //register the controller
    angular.module("umbraco").controller('MyPackage.MyTree.EditController', myTreeEditController);
})();

Create a view

As per the conventions above our editor view will need to be located at:

/App_Plugins/MyPackage/BackOffice/MyTree/edit.html

The view is simple, it is just going to show the current id being edited

<div ng-controller="MyPackage.MyTree.EditController">
    <h1>Hello world!</h1>
    <p>
        You are current editing an item with id {{id}}
    </p>
</div>

Create a Dialog

This is the same principle as an editor, you just need to follow conventions. Based on the above conventions the 'create' dialog view will be located here:

/App_Plugins/MyPackage/BackOffice/MyTree/create.html


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HostForLIFE.eu Launches Umbraco 7.2.8 Hosting

clock August 19, 2015 06:56 by author Peter

HostForLIFE.eu, a leading web hosting provider, has leveraged its gold partner status with Microsoft to launch its latest Umbraco 7.2.8 Hosting support

HostForLIFE.eu, a leading Windows web hosting provider with innovative technology solutions and a dedicated professional services team, today announced the support for Umbraco 7.2.8 hosting plan due to high demand of Umbraco users in Europe. The company has managed to build a strong client base in a very short period of time. It is known for offering ultra-fast, fully-managed and secured services in the competitive market.

HostForLIFE.eu hosts its servers in top class data centers that is located in Amsterdam (NL), London (UK), Paris (FR), Frankfurt (DE) and Seattle (US) to guarantee 99.9% network uptime. All data center feature redundancies in network connectivity, power, HVAC, security and fire suppression. All hosting plans from HostForLIFE.eu include 24×7 support and 30 days money back guarantee. HostForLIFE Umbraco hosting plan starts from just as low as €3.00/month only and this plan has supported ASP.NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 5/6 and SQL Server 2012/2014.

Umbraco 7.2.8 is a fully-featured open source content management system with the flexibility to run anything from small campaign or brochure sites right through to complex applications for Fortune 500's and some of the largest media sites in the world. Umbraco was sometimes unable to read the umbraco.config file, making Umbraco think it had no content and showing a blank page instead (issue U4-6802), this is the main issue fixed in this release. This affects people on 7.2.5 and 7.2.6 only. 7.2.8 also fixes a conflict with Courier and some other packages.

Umbraco 7.2.8 Hosting is strongly supported by both an active and welcoming community of users around the world, and backed up by a rock-solid commercial organization providing professional support and tools. Umbraco 7.2.8 can be used in its free, open-source format with the additional option of professional tools and support if required. Not only can you publish great multilingual websites using Umbraco 7.2.8 out of the box, you can also build in your chosen language with our multilingual back office tools.

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DotNetnuke 7.3.4 Hosting - HostForLIFE.eu :: How to Fix DotNetNuke Redirect Loop and 404 Not Found Error ?

clock January 13, 2015 05:40 by author Peter

This problem happens especially in the latest versions of DotNetNuke (7.0 or later). It is shortly represented like this: when you install DotNetNuke and everything appearance fine. You log in to your system using your host account and so your homepage keeps refreshing indefinitely. you'll not get rid of that “Getting Started” pop-up. after you manually instert the url of different pages in your web browser url bar (like yoursite.com/contact.aspx), you get a 404 not found error.

To solve this problem, apply the steps below:
1. Find the folder within which your DotNetNuke web site is installed and find your web.config file there and open it (normally, i open it with a development application like Visual Studio or notepad++ for better undestanding however classic Notepad can do fine, too).

2. On the web.config file, you should find the <system.webserver> tag.

3. On this tag, find <modules> tag. And update this tag:
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests=”true”>

4. Then, Save your web.config file. Close your browser, open it again and open your website. Log in with your host or admin account. You will see that the problem is fixed.

Obviously there may be different components which cause this issue yet i have made bunches of DNN establishments and i've generally figured out how to settle this issue by applying the steps above.

Note: If you have done all the steps and still get a 404 error, than check your default documents in IIS and see if there is default.aspx in there. If not, add it.



Best DotNetNuke 7.3.4 Hosting with HostForLIFE.eu

clock December 23, 2014 07:52 by author Peter

European leading web hosting provider, HostForLIFE.eu announced support for DotNetNuke 7.3.4 hosting plan due to high demand of DotNetNuke CMS users in Europe.

HostForLIFE.eu proudly launches the support of DotNetNuke 7.3.4 on all our newest Windows Server  environment. HostForLIFE.eu DotNetNuke 7.3.4 Hosting plan starts from just as low as €3.00/month only and this plan has supported ASP.NET 5, ASP.NET MVC 5/6 and SQL Server 2012/2014.

DotNetNuke 7.3.4, as well known in the web industry and familiar among .NET developers, is a Web Content Management System (WCMS) based on Microsoft .NET platform. It is an excellent open source software that you can use to manage your website without having much technical knowledge.

HostForLIFE.eu clients are specialized in providing supports for DotNetNuke for many years. We are glad to provide support for European DotNetNuke 7.3.4 hosting users with advices and troubleshooting for our clients website when necessary.

DNN 7.3.4 is a smaller maintenance release than normal and is focused on addressing the most serious platform issues. DNN 7.3.4 addresses a number of platform issues and should be the last release before DNN 7.4.0. DNN 7.3.4 added ability to save localized lists to resource file, added method to remove all subscriptions from a ContentItem, fixed issue where AUM was not correctly handling 301 redirects, Fixed issue where popup iframe is not initialized correctly and fixed issue where multiple region/country controls in a profile did not work correctly.

DotNetNuke 7.3.4 will be a great content management system that support many advance website features such as blogs, forums, e-commerce system, photo galleries and more. DotNetNuke 7.3.4 is a great platform to build your web presence with. HostForLIFE.eu can help customize any web software that company wishes to utilize.

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