Creating a Custom Site Definition

harishjan · January 21st, 2009, 08:40 AM

i checked the folder name and place were the files are....its all correct,, still the problem is occuring,
this the place were the files are are..
12\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\MySiteDefinition
and i see default.aspx, MySiteDefinition.master page in the same folder and
onet.xml is in XML folder.

I tried even with defaultdws.aspx changed with MasterPageFile="~masterurl/custom.master"... still not working.

oa1112 · June 4th, 2009, 05:26 PM

Has anyone managed to find a fix for this problem?

I've run through the steps a couple of times now (each time fully reverting to a previous VM state) without luck.

JeffCren · June 19th, 2009, 11:05 AM

I'm having the same issue, and I checked where the project was saved, etc. I did notice that on p. 103 in the table describing attributes of the Project element, it says that the CSS (and js?) files are located in the[WSS]\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\1033\STYLES\folder, but in the walk-through, we are instructed to copy them to the[WSS]\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\Custom\MySiteDefinition\folder. I assumed this was because they were for a custom site definition, but I tried copying the files to the first location in the post-build script, and that didn't work either.Using either folder, the site gets created (it shows up in Sites and Workspaces) but when you try to navigate to it you get the File Not Found error.

JeffCren · June 19th, 2009, 11:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdattis

Folks,

If this is not the case, please post the content of your webtemp files as well as the folder structure of your project.

Thanks,

Dan

Code:

<?xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- _lcid="1033" _version="12.0.4518" _dal="1" -->
<!-- _LocalBinding -->
<Templatesxmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint">
<TemplateName="GLOBAL"SetupPath="global"ID="0">
<ConfigurationID="0"Title="Global template"Hidden="TRUE"ImageUrl=""Description="This template is used for initializing a new site." > </Configuration>
</Template>
<TemplateName="MySiteDefinition"ID="10001">
<ConfigurationID="0"Title="My Custom Site"Hidden="FALSE"ImageUrl="/_layouts/images/stsprev.png"Description="My Custom Site Description"DisplayCategory="Custom" > </Configuration>
</Template>
</Templates>

Project Directory:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\MySiteDefinit ion

and the MySiteDefinition contains the following:
bin folder
obj folder
Properties folder
XML folder containing ONET.xml
core.css
core.js
default.aspx
MySiteDefinition.cs
MySiteDefinition.aspx
MySiteDefinition.sln
WEBTEMPMySiteDefinition.xml

Post-build script:

xcopy ..\..\WEBTEMPMySiteDefinition.XML "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\1033\XML\" /y
xcopy ..\..\core.css "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\Custom\MySiteDefini tion\" /y
xcopy ..\..\core.js "C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\Web Server Extensions\12\TEMPLATE\LAYOUTS\Custom\MySiteDefini tion\" /y