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After you have installed Umbraco and created a published page via the administration area you should be able to view your site. If you can view the site, this post is not for you!

If you are getting redirected to the installation page even though you have published content then please check that in the web.config you have the following value set to your version of Umbraco:

<add key="umbracoConfigurationStatus" value="4.9.0" />

Sometimes if the permissions were not correct for the web.config file during install you will find the connection string you used upon installation is not persisted and also this version number is not set.

Once you set this value you should be able to view your content.

Hopefully this will save you some time if your having this problem.

I think in our case it occurred when we renamed the Account entity to be Organisation. A supported way of resolving this is outlined below.

1. Create a new view on the same entity called ‘fix’ and assign some filter criteria (it doesn’t matter what)
2. Set the new view as the default
3. Publish your changes
4. Open the new view, go to more actions and delete it. You can’t delete it from the main list of views as you will get an error “You cannot delete a default view until you have specified another view as the default”
5. Publish your entity again

You should now only have one default view and no more problems!

• Debug a website
• Debug a web service
• Debug another .NET app

So you go into Visual Studio, Debug menu, Attach to process…

SO you are looking for the w3p.exe process, but there are loads!

Here is how to match up which process related to your application pool or IIS site.

Server 2003
Open a command prompt (run as administrator)
C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv>cscript.exe C:\Windows\System32\system32\iisapp.vbs

Server 2008
Open a command prompt (run as administrator)
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe list wp

If you get an error WAS service not started – make sure you opened command prompt as an administrator!

Hope this helps someone else quickly attach to the right process.

Alternatively attach to them all if you are lazy

<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/page.html"/>

The search engines have also posted about this on a Google blog post or help center documentation from Google, Yahoo’s blog post, or Microsoft’s blog post.

How to easily use canonical links in MVC2 using Action Filters and Master Pages

Add this to the master page in the head section as follows:

    <%=ViewData["CanonicalURL"] %>
    <!--Your other head info here-->

Create a Filter Attribute (CanonicalURL.cs):

public class CanonicalURL : ActionFilterAttribute
{
    public string Url { get; private set; }
 
    public CanonicalURL(string url)
    {
       Url = url;
    }
 
    public override void OnResultExecuting(ResultExecutingContext filterContext)
    {
        string fullyQualifiedUrl = "http://www.example.com" + this.Url;
        filterContext.Controller.ViewData["CanonicalUrl"] = @"<link rel='canonical' href='" + fullyQualifiedUrl + "' />";
        base.OnResultExecuting(filterContext);
    }
}

Call this from your actions:

[CanonicalURL("Contact-Us")]
public ActionResult Index()
 {
      ContactFormViewModel contact = new ContactFormViewModel(); 
      return View(contact);
}

For some other interesting articles on Search Engine Related posts check out Matt Cutts blog

Phil Haack’s blog post: ASP.NET MVC 3 Release Candidate

Direct download: MVC 3 RC Download

I hope this helps someone get started with cookies if your just getting started with the .NET framework.

Creating a cookie

This is a basic example of how to create a cookie in ASP.NET C#

//Create a new cookie, passing the name into the constructor
HttpCookie cookie = new HttpCookie("MyCookie");

//Set the cookies value
cookie.Value = "CookieValue";

//Set the cookie to expire in 1 day
cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(1);

//Add the cookie
Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);

Deleting a cookie

When deleting a cookie all you need to do is amend the HttpCookie object so it has an expiry date in the past, then re-save the cookie to push the new value to the client.

// Clear cookie Info
            if(Request.Cookies["MyCookie"]!=null){

                HttpCookie cookie = Request.Cookies["MyCookie"];
                cookie.Expires = DateTime.Now.AddDays(-1);

                Response.Cookies.Add(cookie);
            }

First create a new class which extends the MvcRouteHandler and place this in the Global.asax file after the main MvcApplication class.

C#:

public class HyphenatedRouteHandler : MvcRouteHandler{
	protected override IHttpHandler  GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
	{
		requestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"] = requestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"].ToString().Replace("-", "_");
		requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"] = requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"].ToString().Replace("-", "_");
		return base.GetHttpHandler(requestContext);
	}
}

VB:

Public Class HyphenatedRouteHandler
    Inherits MvcRouteHandler
 
    Protected Overrides Function GetHttpHandler(ByVal requestContext As System.Web.Routing.RequestContext) As System.Web.IHttpHandler
        requestContext.RouteData.Values("controller") = requestContext.RouteData.Values("controller").ToString.Replace("-", "_")
        requestContext.RouteData.Values("action") = requestContext.RouteData.Values("action").ToString.Replace("-", "_")
        Return MyBase.GetHttpHandler(requestContext)
    End Function
 
End Class

Then you need to replace the routes.MapRoute with an equivalent routes.Add specifying the new handler as the MapRoute does not allow you to specify a custom route handler.

C#:

routes.Add(
	new Route("{controller}/{action}/{id}", 
		new RouteValueDictionary(
			new { controller = "Default", action = "Index", id = "" }),
			new HyphenatedRouteHandler())
);

VB:

routes.Add(New Route("{controller}/{action}/{id}", 
	New RouteValueDictionary(New With {.controller = "Home", .action = "Index", .id = ""}), 
		New HyphenatedRouteHandler()))

I hope this is useful, any questions feel free to get in touch.

Would like to say thanks to John from here for answering the original question on Stackoverflow