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Does your application key have an uppercase "D" for "Dave" or is it lowercase?

The way the blog is loaded in this case, the lookup *will* be case-sensitive. 

Dave

like I say it works fine on Kid Congo, just not on other themes

Kid Congo does not load theme data inline with the page so this issue would not affect it.  I would imagine that the default and default2 themes work as well.

Where is the appKey defined? /controlpanel/BlogAdmin/SectionEdit.aspx?tab=blog&SectionID=3 just shows....

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It would be the value for URL.  It is also displayed as "name" when selecting a blog in the "My Blogs" area of the control panel.

Note that after beta-1, the applicationKey lookup used for theme configuration data is case insensitive.

My Blogs (/controlpanel/blogs/switch.aspx) shows name separately to appKey.

Admin > Blogs > Blogs (/controlpanel/BlogAdmin/Blogs.aspx) does show name as appKey though

I'll check the case tonight and see if that fixed it
 

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KevinTunis

I set my application key to blog and copied the files to the root as is, I am getting the following error logged

You're experiencing the same issue as Dave.  The appKey is "blog" and you were accessing "Blog".  This is fixed in the next beta of CS2007.

I'm really looking forward to using all these new features. I was hoping that you could explain how to setup the images folder in a little more detail. I have installed a copy of the Beta and created a blog with the key blog. This was created in the default location of Web\blogs\blog.

I have downloaded the override config files for "Blog at Root" and deployed them without modification. I intentionally left the override of the blogFileStorageLocation with the value ~/images because this is the location that I would like my blog files to be stored. I created a Web\images folder and gave the ASPNET account the appropriate permissions.

I was able to upload files without error but have found the path to the files is not as I expected. A new folder called blog was created under the new images folder, so my files are being uploaded to Web\images\blog. I expected that the uploaded files would be created in the root of the images folder, which is the desired behaviour for a single user blog.

Is it possible to get the uploaded files to all reside within the Web\images folder and not Web\images\blog? Thanks in advance.

oykica

I was able to upload files without error but have found the path to the files is not as I expected. A new folder called blog was created under the new images folder, so my files are being uploaded to Web\images\blog. I expected that the uploaded files would be created in the root of the images folder, which is the desired behaviour for a single user blog.

Is it possible to get the uploaded files to all reside within the Web\images folder and not Web\images\blog? Thanks in advance.

This is done on purpose to seperate the blog files for each blog.  So the blogFileStorageLocation is the root folder that will be used for blog files.  The files are actually saved inside a subfolder with the name of the your blog's AppKey (url).  Otherwise, for a site with multiple blogs, each blog would be able to view and overwrite other blog's files which can be a bad thing.

I can see how a single blog site may not want to have the images saved in a subfolder as it's not strictly necessary. But that is not a configurable option at this time.  You could, however, change the blogFileStorageLocation to be the root ( "~")  or the blogs folder ("~/blogs").  That would result in your images getting saved in "/blog"  or "/blogs/blog" which may look a little better to you.

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for the reply. I understand the logic behind the decision to append the AppKey to the path. I guess I could do you as you suggest and use the root ("~") for the blogFileStorageLocation and perhaps even use "images" as the blog's AppKey.

Thanks again.

Cheers,

okyica.

I wanted multiple blogs at the root, so I changed the siteurls_override.config to only contain the following: 

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Overrides>
 <Override xpath = "/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='weblogs']" mode = "change" name = "path" value = "/" />
 <Override xpath = "/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='weblogs']" mode = "new" name = "physicalPath" value = "/blogs/" />
</Overrides>

It seems to be working out pretty well.  Just thought I would share.

jeffesp

I wanted multiple blogs at the root, so I changed the siteurls_override.config to only contain the following: 

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Overrides>
 <Override xpath = "/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='weblogs']" mode = "change" name = "path" value = "/" />
 <Override xpath = "/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='weblogs']" mode = "new" name = "physicalPath" value = "/blogs/" />
</Overrides>

It seems to be working out pretty well.  Just thought I would share.

Just tried the overrides on a new RTW install of CS 2007, and this works very nicely.

Thanks for making the config so much simpler, Scott!

 <Override xpath = "/CommunityServer/Weblog" mode = "change" name = "blogFileStorageLocation" value = "~/images" />

Does anybody know the reason for changing the above for blogging at the root? 

Hi all,

I am trying to figure out how to have multiple blogs at the root but still preserve the site home page. 

I want to upgrade my site xboxbloggers.net to CS 2007 before I begin a little marketing 'campaign' to promote the site but I need to preserve the blogger's URL.  Currently members have a blog at http:\\xboxbloggers.net\username. 

Before I continue, let me just say that I got this to work on CS 2.1 and if you visit http://xbobloggers.net you can see it in action.  I just can't seem to get it right on CS 2007.

On my test machine, I made the siteurls_override.config as below: 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Overrides>
 <Override xpath = "/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='weblogs']" mode = "change" name = "path" value = "/" />
 <Override xpath = "/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='weblogs']" mode = "new" name = "physicalPath" value = "/blogs/" />
</Overrides>

When I do that, http://xboxbloggers.net/monkeynuts360 works as does http://xboxbloggers.net/craign which is exactly what I want but there is another problem:  The default home page of the site reverts to the blogs home page.  http://xbobloggers.net actually shows http://xbobloggers.net/blogs/ which if you look at the above code is entirely expected.

My question is, how do I get the best of both worlds?  I want to have the home page as I do now but I also want to keep the URL's as they currently are.

Shout if you need any further information.

Thanks

Chris