broken links and themes not applied

Hello,

I have WSS 2007 installed and something went wrong with .Net framework and IIS, so I repaired .Net 2.0 and the IIS is back to normal and the websites are opening.
However, the style sheets are not being applied successfully and some links in the sharepoint appear to be broken. For example if I open the main site collection, as http://<server name>/sites/<mysitecollection> it does not open unless i specifically put http://<server name>/sites/<mysitecollection>/Pages/category.aspx.
Similarly if I change the Theme of one of the sites, it doesn not take effect and remains on the default scheme.

Any ideas as of what may be the cause of this Is it related to the configuration of the sharepoint web.config or perhaps something in .Net

Any thoughts are appreciated,
Grace

Grace,

You may want to check your home directory setting in IIS to make sure your virtual server is pointing to the right folder.

Thanks,

J

Thanks Joey,

I have the following settings in my IIS:

The sites are installed on port 81 so my Local Path of the "Sharepoint - 81" Web Site points to "C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\81".

The path of the sub virtual directories "_layouts" points to "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\template\layouts". I checked it physically and it is correct.

I noticed one thing, that the default.aspx page was not added under Documents of the web site, I am not sure if it has to do with anything so I added it manually, but I still have the same problem.

Could it be anything specific in the settings

Thanks Again,

Grace

Hi Grace,

What do you mean when you said the default.aspx page was not under the Documents of the web site

Lets back up for a minute, was the changes to your site done on the default.master

All default.aspx pages reside under the SITE TEMPLATES folder and all refer to the default.master located in the WEB SERVER EXTENSIONS\12\TEMPLATE\GLOBAL which defines the layout to all basic sites. Please keep in mind changes to the default.master is global.

Thanks,
J

Hi Joey,

I meant that in the IIS settings, there is the Documents tab that lists default pages redirection, it had the default.asp, default.htm but not the default.aspx, i assume because i repaired the .Net framework. So I added default.aspx page to the list.

I did not do any change to default.master page. I was wondering, what is the place that is responsible for the redirection to the correct /sites/<sitecollection>/Pages/Category.aspx so i can make sure this is working

Thanks,

Grace

Hi Grace,

Did you just do an upgrade from SPS 2003 to MOSS 2007

Have you tried resetting the site definition on your WSS site

1. Site Actions
2. Site Settings
3. Under Look and Feel - Reset to site definition

Before doing so you may want to verify your CSS has not been overwriten to the default. Maybe that's why your styles are not being applied.

• controls.css
• htmeditorcustomsytles.css
• htmleditortableformats.css
• portal.css
• core.css

Thanks,

J

Hi Joey,

I tried resetting the site definition as you mentioned, but no effect. I also checked the .css files listes, all are there except htmeditorcustomsytles.css I didn't find it.

Another thing I just noticed, if I go under Look and Feel section, and go to Master Page, I get the following errors:

- The site master page setting currently applied to this site is invalid. Please select a new master page and apply it.

- The system master page setting currently applied to this site is invalid. Please select a new master page and apply it.

And the preview of the default.master page is not displayed. Although if I click under Galleries -> Master Pages, this file does exist.

I am douting that it is an issue that has to do with proper redirection. As if the redirection or links are not properly working, but can't seem to find the place to fix it.

Thanks Joey for your feedback,

Grace

You did a clean install of WSS V3, so I'm curious why the master page seems to be corrupt.

Unless you reinstalled with out doing a clean uninstall when you started having all of your problems.

Do you have a backup

Thanks,

J

Everything was working fine, until I ran the installation of another application that required installation of the .Net Framework 1.1. So I had to install that. Mind you that the server is 64-bit. Once the .Net Framework 1.1 was installted the Websites no longer worked, and it seems that was a known issue of installing the Net Framework 1.1 on 64 bit machines. So i had to repair the .Net Framework 2.0 and IIS. And now the websites work but some links in sharepoint sites don't.

I also tried repairing the WSS but still no solution.

I do have a backup but it is somehow outdated, a couple of sites were created afterwards, so I am trying to solve the right way if there is a way.

Thanks for following up on this. Maybe I should be posting something under IIS and .Net Framework forums also.

I will keep searching.

Grace