Configuring sitecore sites - content-management-system

Within the web.config we have the following:
<sites>
<site name="shell" virtualFolder="/sitecore/shell" physicalFolder="/sitecore/shell" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" language="en" database="core" domain="sitecore" loginPage="/sitecore/login" content="master" contentStartItem="/Home" enableWorkflow="true" enableAnalytics="false" xmlControlPage="/sitecore/shell/default.aspx" browserTitle="Sitecore" htmlCacheSize="2MB" registryCacheSize="3MB" viewStateCacheSize="200KB" xslCacheSize="5MB" />
<site name="login" virtualFolder="/sitecore/login" physicalFolder="/sitecore/login" enableAnalytics="false" database="core" domain="sitecore" disableXmlControls="true" />
<site name="admin" virtualFolder="/sitecore/admin" physicalFolder="/sitecore/admin" enableAnalytics="false" enableWorkflow="true" domain="sitecore" loginPage="/sitecore/admin/login.aspx" />
<site name="service" virtualFolder="/sitecore/service" physicalFolder="/sitecore/service" />
<site name="modules_shell" virtualFolder="/sitecore modules/shell" physicalFolder="/sitecore modules/shell" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" language="en" database="core" domain="sitecore" content="master" enableAnalytics="false" enableWorkflow="true" />
<site name="modules_website" virtualFolder="/sitecore modules/web" physicalFolder="/sitecore modules/web" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" language="en" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" />
<site name="developer_default" hostName="developer05.poc" virtualFolder="" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/Partners/UK/" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" htmlCacheSize="10MB" registryCacheSize="0" viewStateCacheSize="0" xslCacheSize="5MB" filteredItemsCacheSize="2MB" enablePreview="true" enableWebEdit="true" enableDebugger="true" disableClientData="false" />
<site name="scheduler" enableAnalytics="false" domain="sitecore" />
<site name="system" enableAnalytics="false" domain="sitecore" />
<site name="publisher" domain="sitecore" enableAnalytics="false" enableWorkflow="true" />
<site name="unfunctioning_site_default" hostName="subdomain.developer05.poc" virtualFolder="" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/Partners/UK/SomeSite" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" htmlCacheSize="10MB" registryCacheSize="0" viewStateCacheSize="0" xslCacheSize="5MB" filteredItemsCacheSize="2MB" enablePreview="true" enableWebEdit="true" enableDebugger="true" disableClientData="false" />
</sites>
This works fine, if I add another site after the publisher, system and scheduler sites I get issues I was wondering if anyone knew why is it that I have to add them before?
The issue I get is:
The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Requested URL: /default
User Name: sitecore\Anonymous
Site Name: scheduler
If the page you are trying to display exists, please check that an appropriate prefix has been added to the IgnoreUrlPrefixes setting in the web.config.

Sitecore will utilize the first site that it can match, either by path or by host name. This is why the scheduler, system, and publisher sites are last, since they do not have any path or host name values. You can see from the message you get that Sitecore is matching on the scheduler site. Typically new sites would be added right after modules_website. Move yours there and you should be golden.

The answer is as Techphoria says, but for further info, I recently blogged about Sitecore multi-site setups, inter-site links, and out-of-context link generation : http://blog.paulgeorge.co.uk/2011/05/01/sitecore-linkmanager-inside-out-muti-site-and-sub-site-setups/

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Cannot make it work sith Shibboleth SP configuration for site id =2

I have a very simple problem I cannot fix and I feel stupid.
I am trying to run Shibboleth SP3 for SSO for a website hosted by IIS.
I configure a sample website 1, under IIS, with an index.aspx.
I configured the ISAPI and RequestMap as follow:
<InProcess logger="native.logger">
<ISAPI normalizeRequest="true" safeHeaderNames="true">
<Site id="1" name="localhost" scheme="http" port="80"/>
</ISAPI>
</InProcess>
<RequestMapper type="Native">
<RequestMap>
<Host name="localhost">
<Path name="secure" authType="shibboleth" requireSession="true" />
</RequestMap>
It works well, I am redirected to the Idp, my claims are extracted. Now I want to use a another site in IIS, with id 2. Here is my configuration:
<InProcess logger="native.logger">
<ISAPI normalizeRequest="true" safeHeaderNames="true">
<Site id="2" name="localhost" scheme="http" port="81"/>
</ISAPI>
</InProcess>
<RequestMapper type="Native">
<RequestMap>
<Host name="localhost">
<Path name="secure" authType="shibboleth" requireSession="true" />
</RequestMap>
The id matches the site id on IIS. I remove the configuration of the first site to avoid problem at this stage.
Now, after restarting IIS and shib_default service, when I type http://localhost:81/secure/index.html, I am not redirected to my IDP.
Why ? Is there anything I do wrong?
You're trying to secure two different localhost http listeners, and I don't think that's supported. The way I would do this, is add site1.dev and site2.dev to your hosts file, and alter the IIS configuration so that site1.dev is asserted as the hostname for site #1, and vice versa.
Then, your shibboleth configuration will look something like this:
<InProcess logger="native.logger">
<ISAPI normalizeRequest="true" safeHeaderNames="true">
<Site id="1" name="site1.dev" scheme="http" port="80"/>
<Site id="2" name="site2.dev" scheme="http" port="80"/>
</ISAPI>
</InProcess>
<RequestMapper type="Native">
<RequestMap>
<Host name="site1.dev">
<Path name="secure" authType="shibboleth" requireSession="true" />
</Host>
<Host name="site2.dev">
<Path name="secure" authType="shibboleth" requireSession="true" />
</Host>
</RequestMap>
</RequestMapper>
Basically, things get weird if you're trying to run HTTP on non-standard ports (81) with Shib. I've never seen anyone do that, even in a development environment. And no matter what, you can't have multiple <InProcess>, <ISAPI>, and <RequestMapper> elements.
Edit: I think you might even need to define multiple ApplicationOverrides for what you're doing.

Major Upgrade without uninstallation of Windows Service

I am really very sorry for being redundant. I have checked a lot of other posts in this site itself and perhaps some other sites. I am not able to get Major Upgrade working without uninstalling & reinstalling of service. I am changing the Product Code and Version and the UpgradeFileComponent is the component that is part of the Upgrade. All the remaining are the same as in 1.0.0. I am doing a POC and hence would like to make only this small change (not as a patch, but as a major upgrade). Following is my Product.wxs. I am not including the markup for the other things like ServiceAccountDlg, Variables.wxi or en-us.wxl, since it may make it really long. Can anyone please help me? I have already tried WIX_UPGRADE_DETECTED, UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE and so on, but not able to get it working. Everytime, the service is getting uninstalled and reinstalled. I am verifying this in the following way. Once the service starts, it creates a log file in ProgramData and keeps appending it to every 5 seconds. During uninstallation of the MSI, I am deleting this log file and its folder. After the service gets reinstalled and restarts, the log file gets created again. With this I am able to figure out that the service is getting reinstalled always with the major upgrade. I only want the new file to be deployed without reinstalling the service or any other component being uninstalled. I have heard from some people that the toolset checks for changed files and reinstalls them only if there is a change. But this doesn't seem to be the case. I have tried using the Schedule attribute with various values also, but no luck. Any help will be really great. I have been trying this for so many days without any luck. Please let me know if any more info is required from me.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?include Variables.wxi ?>
<Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" xmlns:util='http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension'>
<Product Id="$(var.ProductCode)" Name="$(var.ProductName)" Language="!(loc.LANG)" Version="$(var.ProductVersion)" Manufacturer=" MyCompany" UpgradeCode="$(var.UpgradeCode)">
<Package InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" InstallScope="perMachine" Id="*" />
<MajorUpgrade DowngradeErrorMessage="A newer version of [ProductName] is already installed." />
<!--<Upgrade Id="$(var.UpgradeCode)">
<UpgradeVersion OnlyDetect="yes" Minimum="1.0.0" Maximum="2.0.0" IncludeMinimum="yes" IncludeMaximum="yes" Property="NEWERFOUND" />
</Upgrade>-->
<InstallExecuteSequence>
<!--<RemoveExistingProducts After="InstallExecute" />
<DeleteServices>NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE</DeleteServices>-->
<!--<InstallServices>NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE,NOT WIX_UPGRADE_DETECTED</InstallServices>-->
<DeleteServices>NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE</DeleteServices>
</InstallExecuteSequence>
<Condition Message='This application only runs on Windows 7 or higher OS versions.'>
<![CDATA[Installed OR (VersionNT64 >= 601)]]>
</Condition>
<MediaTemplate />
<Property Id="MSIFASTINSTALL" Value="1"/>
<Property Id="MsiLogging" Value="v" />
<Property Id="MSIENFORCEUPGRADECOMPONENTRULES" Value="1" />
<Property Id="INSTALLDIR">
<RegistrySearch Id='MyCompanyMSISampleRegistry' Type='raw' Root='HKLM' Key='SOFTWARE\MyCompany\CustomApp' Name='INSTALLDIR' Win64='yes' />
</Property>
<WixVariable Id="WixUILicenseRtf" Value="License.rtf" />
<Feature Id='Complete' Title='Foobar 1.0' Description='The complete package.'
Display='expand' Level='1' ConfigurableDirectory='INSTALLDIR' AllowAdvertise='no' InstallDefault='local' Absent='disallow'>
<Feature Id="FileFeature" Title="File Feature" Level="1" AllowAdvertise='no' InstallDefault='local' Absent='disallow' Display='expand'>
<ComponentRef Id="FileComponent"/>
<ComponentRef Id="UpgradeFileComponent"/>
</Feature>
<Feature Id="ServiceFeature" Title="Service Feature" Level="1" AllowAdvertise='no' InstallDefault='local' Absent='disallow' Display='expand'>
<ComponentRef Id="ServiceComponent"/>
<ComponentRef Id="deleteFolder"/>
</Feature>
<Feature Id="RegistryFeature" Title="Registry Feature" Level="1" AllowAdvertise='no' InstallDefault='local' Absent='disallow' Display='expand'>
<ComponentRef Id="RegistryComponent"/>
</Feature>
<Feature Id='Documentation' Title='Description' Description='The instruction manual.' Level='2' AllowAdvertise='no' InstallDefault='followParent' Absent='disallow'>
<ComponentRef Id='Manual' />
</Feature>
</Feature>
<!--<UIRef Id="WixUI_Mondo"/>
<UIRef Id="WixUI_ErrorProgressText" />-->
<UI Id="MyWixUI_Mondo">
<UIRef Id="WixUI_Mondo" />
<DialogRef Id="ServiceAccountDlg" />
<Publish Dialog="LicenseAgreementDlg" Control="Next" Event="NewDialog" Value="ServiceAccountDlg" Order="2">LicenseAccepted = "1"</Publish>
<Publish Dialog="SetupTypeDlg" Control="Back" Event="NewDialog" Value="ServiceAccountDlg">1</Publish>
</UI>
<UIRef Id="WixUI_ErrorProgressText" />
<Icon Id="MyCompanyBanner.ico" SourceFile="Binary\MyCompanyBanner.ico" />
</Product>
<Fragment>
<Component Id='Manual' Guid='7470A2CD-B07C-4AB4-9152-8C6AA53FA0F7' Directory='INSTALLDIR'>
<File Id='Manual' Name='Manual.pdf' DiskId='1' Source='1.0.0\Manual.pdf' KeyPath='yes'>
<Shortcut Id="startmenuManual" Directory="DesktopFolder" Name="Instruction Manual" Advertise="yes" />
</File>
</Component>
</Fragment>
<Fragment>
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="INSTALLDIR" Name="$(var.InstallFolderName)" />
</Directory>
<Directory Id="DesktopFolder" Name="Desktop" />
<Directory Id="CommonAppDataFolder">
<Directory Id="MyCompanyTestInstallerLogs" Name="MyCompanyTestInstallerLogs">
<Component Id="deleteFolder" Guid="323549D2-90B7-4D5D-8A36-EEA0ACCCC35E">
<RemoveFile Id="deleteServiceFile" Name="MyCompanyTestWinSvcLog.txt" On="both" Directory="MyCompanyTestInstallerLogs"/>
<RemoveFolder Directory="MyCompanyTestInstallerLogs" Id="MyCompanyTestInstallerLogs" On="both"/>
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Fragment>
<Fragment>
<Component Id="FileComponent" Directory="INSTALLDIR" Guid="F143BE3C-48D6-4138-B4E6-5CF44773CBA5" >
<File Id="SampleTextFile.txt" Name="Sample.txt" Source="$(var.Version)\Sample.txt" KeyPath="yes">
<Shortcut Id="startmenuSampleText" Directory="DesktopFolder" Name="MyCompany MSI Sample" WorkingDirectory='INSTALLDIR' Icon='MyCompanyBanner.ico' Advertise='yes' />
</File>
</Component>
</Fragment>
<Fragment>
<Component Id="UpgradeFileComponent" Directory="INSTALLDIR" Guid="4582597C-2CE0-451E-8B89-83BA4ABCE464">
<File Id="SampleXMLFile.xml" Name="Sample.xml" Source="$(var.Version)\Sample.xml" KeyPath="yes" />
</Component>
</Fragment>
<Fragment>
<Component Id='ServiceComponent' Directory="INSTALLDIR" Guid="AEA0E53F-3D70-4010-8592-9A01FE49344D">
<util:User Domain="[DOMAIN]" Id="svcUser" Name="[USER_NAME]" Password="[PASSWORD]" LogonAsService="yes" CreateUser="no"/>
<File Id='MyCompanyTestWinSvc' Name='MyCompanyTestWinSvc.exe' Source='Binary\MyCompanyTestWinSvc.exe' KeyPath='yes' />
<ServiceInstall Id="installMyCompanyTestWinSvc" Name="MyCompanyTestWinSvc" DisplayName="MyCompany Install Test Windows Service" Start="auto" ErrorControl="normal" Type="ownProcess" Account="[DOMAIN]\[USER_NAME]" Password="[PASSWORD]" />
<ServiceControl Id="sc_MyCompanyTestWinSvc" Name="MyCompanyTestWinSvc" Start="install" Stop="both" Remove="uninstall" Wait="yes" />
<ServiceControl Id="stopAndStartIIS" Name="IISADMIN" Start="uninstall" Stop="install" Wait="yes" />
<ServiceControl Id="stopAndStartSQL" Name="MSSQLSERVER" Start="uninstall" Stop="install" Wait="yes" />
</Component>
</Fragment>
<Fragment>
<Component Id="RegistryComponent" Directory="INSTALLDIR" Guid="8D8D93A4-09F5-4511-B291-720A7BC70529">
<RegistryValue Root='HKCU' Key='Software\[Manufacturer]\[ProductName]' Type='string' Value='' KeyPath='yes' />
</Component>
</Fragment>
</Wix>
Your MajorUpgrade does not specify where it is scheduled. As the docs say, the default is after InstallValidate and "This scheduling removes the installed product entirely before installing the upgrade product. " So your major upgrade will uninstall the older product completely, deleting the service, and then install your upgrade.
So you should start by having your major upgrade scheduled afterInstallExecute, because this will behave like an update on top of the existing installed product and the reference counting should minimize disruption to your service. This means that you must follow component rules, and increment the file versions of versioned files that need replacing.
Having said that, an upgrade is always an uninstall of the older product, so the ServiceControl in that older version will run, and Remove="both" might be the problem, deleting the service during the upgrade. So the original WiX ServiceControl matters.
Also, if the component rules haven't been followed an upgrade afterInstallValidate will work fine because it uninstalls everything then installs the new product. But if the component rules have not been followed in an upgrade afterInstallExecute the service component may be getting uninstalled (because of differing component ids), and there may well be other effects of not following the rules.
And to make it clear, you do not need a condition on delete services in your new install. I would start just by sequencing the major upgrade in a better place. Also, UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE as a condition in your new upgrade has absolutely no effect. This property is set in the older product if it is being uninstalled with an upgrade. If you want to use this property it should be in the original product that is already installed, so if it's shipped and installed it is too late to alter that code now (without a patch and so on).
A more verbose MSI log would show more detail about what is happening and in what order, specify the string as voicewarmup.
I added this to my <InstallExecuteSequence>
<!-- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15965539/how-to-only-stop-and-not-uninstall-windows-services-when-major-upgrade-in-wix don't change service config on upgrade -->
<DeleteServices>NOT UPGRADINGPRODUCTCODE</DeleteServices>
<InstallServices>NOT WIX_UPGRADE_DETECTED</InstallServices>
Seemed to work for me but I don't use this anymore due to changes in the product. You have to be sure you won't be changing the configuration of the service between versions since when you do change the configuration you do need to uninstall and install the services during the upgrade.
Services only get deleted on real unininstall (Rob [answerer of commented question] notes you don't need to condition around the Remove state since the install/uninstall state of the services is noted in the components)
And we only install the services on the first install.

Self Hosted (console) WCF configuration

i had a WCF server running through a Console application, it will run as an azure service so i don't to host it in ISS.
I belived it work well and share datas to my web app through ajax request. But when i maked a service that recieve a filestream, i realized that my binding configuration is not used at all. My WCF work same without binding section.
My probleme concerne especially the key "maxReceivedMessageSize" because default value limit me to 8Ko request and it is a problem for uploading file.
Bindings section (that i can comment) :
<webHttpBinding>
<binding name="MyBindingConfig" crossDomainScriptAccessEnabled="true" maxBufferPoolSize="2147483647" maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647" transferMode="Buffered">
<readerQuotas maxStringContentLength="2147483647" maxArrayLength="2147483647" maxBytesPerRead="2147483647" maxDepth="2147483647" maxNameTableCharCount="2147483647" />
<security mode="None" />
</binding>
</webHttpBinding>
Services section :
<service name="MyData.Service.MyDataServiceRestFull">
<endpoint binding="webHttpBinding"
contract="MyData.Service.IMyDataServiceRestFull" bindingName="MyBindingConfig" />
<host>
<baseAddresses>
<add baseAddress="http://localhost:9997/MyDataServer"/>
</baseAddresses>
</host>
</service>
Note that i tryed with basicHttpBinding and i had same issue.
The problem is that you're incorrectly referring to your binding in your <endpoint/> element. You're using the bindingName attribute, when you should be using the bindingConfiguration attribute:
<endpoint binding="webHttpBinding"
contract="MyData.Service.IMyDataServiceRestFull"
bindingConfiguration="MyBindingConfig" />

Form Authentication Cookie is expiring on each request in bigrock shared hosting

Cookie is resetting for every request on shared hosting in bigrock. Please suggest how to resolve this issue.
It's working good in dev environement. Not sure why this issue's occuring after hosted.
Any help ?
Please find the cookie and authentication details below
In Development Environment
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="xxxx.AUTH" loginUrl="~/login" protection="All" timeout="43200" path="/" requireSSL="false" slidingExpiration="true" />
</authentication>
In Hosting Environment
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="AUTH" loginUrl="~/login" protection="All" timeout="43200" path="/" requireSSL="false" slidingExpiration="true" cookieless="UseCookies" domain=".xxxxx.com" />
</authentication
In Development Environement
<sessionState mode="InProc" />
In Hosting Environment
<sessionState stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424" sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;Trusted_Connection=yes"
cookieless="false" timeout="240" />
In Development Environment
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5" maxRequestLength="1536000" executionTimeout="5400" maxQueryStringLength="16384" />
In Hosting Environment
<system.web>
<httpRuntime maxRequestLength="1536000" executionTimeout="14400" maxQueryStringLength="16384" />
<trust level="Medium" />
<machineKey validationKey="B8095B36FC8FEBF6F93DF08E976E88DE969EB2157706A0F0A6DD67D1C1EF5DAB6035B2613EC05C9FF3F7A531D7462F0EED44453C4626A9E1FDBCD596AEFD1BB3" decryptionKey="512BBBCD3B92652675334E317B7F3FBF9F36112D4F23091C67B1479CE1E96976" validation="SHA1" decryption="AES" />
</system.web>
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WiX - Restart service after modification of the installed product

I'm writing a MSI which installs a windows service and adds some DLLs which the service uses. Those DLLs are features which can be added or removed using the installer.
After a user modifies the installed product(eq. add a new feature), windows service needs to be restarted. Is there a more elegant way of doing so in WiX 3.5 other than calling a custom action which would restart the service?
This is how I'm starting the service.
<ServiceControl Id="StartService" Name="MyService" Start="install" Stop="both" Remove="uninstall" Wait="yes" />
EDIT:
Here's the complete component code. Disregard the ids.
<Component Id="MyService" Guid="GUID">
<File Id="MyService"
Source="$(var.BuildDestination)/$(var.NameSpacePrefix).MyService.exe"
KeyPath="yes"
>
</File>
<RemoveFile Id='AppConfigFile' On='uninstall' Name='MyService.exe.Config' />
<User xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension"
Id="ServiceAccount"
CreateUser="no"
FailIfExists="no"
RemoveOnUninstall="no"
UpdateIfExists="yes"
Disabled="no"
LogonAsService="yes"
Name="[ACCOUNT]"
Password="[PASSWORD]" />
<ServiceInstall
Id="MyService"
Type="ownProcess"
Vital="yes"
Name="MyService"
DisplayName="MyService"
Description="MyService"
Start="auto"
Account="[ACCOUNT]"
Password="[PASSWORD]"
ErrorControl="ignore"
Interactive="no">
</ServiceInstall>
<ServiceControl Id="StartService"
Name="MyService"
Start="install"
Stop="both"
Remove="both"
Wait="yes"
>
</ServiceControl>
As the state of the service feature(feature which installs and starts the service) wasn't updated, the service itself wasn't stopped and started too.
I've solved the issue by adding ServiceControl to all components which are separate features.
<Component Id="Modules1" Guid="GUID">
<File Id="Modules.1" Source="$(var.BuildDestination)/$(var.NameSpacePrefix)Modules.1.dll" KeyPath="yes">
</File>
<ServiceControl Id="StartService1"
Name="MyService"
Start="install"
Stop="both"
Wait="yes"
>
</ServiceControl>
This solution works for me:
<Component Directory="APPLICATIONFOLDER">
<File Source ="MyService.exe"
KeyPath ="yes" />
<ServiceInstall Id ="MyService.exe"
Name ="My Service"
Account ="LocalSystem"
Start ="auto"
ErrorControl="normal"
Interactive ="no"
Type ="ownProcess"
Description ="My service does stuff."/>
<ServiceControl Id ="MyService.exe"
Name ="My Service"
Start ="install"
Stop ="both"
Remove ="both"
Wait ="no"/>
</Component>