Comments on: Imtech SharePoint GoCodes (Free SharePoint Feature)

By: QMKevin

QMKevin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:27:08 +0000

Will do :) Thanks for the help to this point, and if I get it working, I'll certainly post back here so others can following along :)

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:13:07 +0000

@QMKevin: The Solution has been build quite some time ago and hasn't been updated/tested with SP2010 yet so you might want to double check that the HTTP Handlers are in the right place.

By: QMKevin

QMKevin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:51:12 +0000

I didn't manually add the web.config entries, so I'm assuming they were done by the install.cmd file. I checked my web.config, and the two Imtech ones are the only HTTP Handler entries, so I'm assuming they are in the right place.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:46:25 +0000

@QMKevin: Did you put the entries in the right place? Because you're working with SharePoint 2010 and IIS7 the place to put the HTTP Handler entries depends on whether your Application Pool is running in the Integrated (most likely) or Classic mode. I suggest you add the HTTP Handler entries that you mention to other similar entries that you should see in the web.config.

By: QMKevin

QMKevin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:03:47 +0000

The missing web.config entries are:
< add verb="GET" path="go/*/" type="Imtech.SharePoint.GoCodes.GoCodesHttpHandler, Imtech.SharePoint.GoCodes, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=d2359c69d2a4a164" />
< add verb="GET" path="go/*" type="Imtech.SharePoint.GoCodes.GoCodesHttpHandler, Imtech.SharePoint.GoCodes, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=d2359c69d2a4a164" />

By: QMKevin

QMKevin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:02:27 +0000

The issues were more 'acces denied', and to resolve I essentially let 'everyone' have full access to that specific file (temporarily). In the web.config I now see two lines were added:
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I also Googled the issue I reported the second time, access denied with the following stack: 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedObject.BaseUpdate() ', and found an article by Paul Kotlyar which provided a PowerShell script to resolve that (http://unclepaul84.blogspot.com/2010/06/sppersistedobject-xxxxxxxxxxx-could-not.html).

So, currently GoCodes is activated and installed. I can see the list, and can add new items to the list, but when I try to use http://ec2-devmoss1/go/mynewcode I get a 404 file not found error.

Sorry to keep reporting issues, it's just that the functionality of this feature is exactly what I need to implement, but I've not found any other systems that do this.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 06:38:55 +0000

@QMKevin: What issues did you exactly have with web.config and how did you fix them?

By: QMKevin

QMKevin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:04:04 +0000

Update to my question above: I was able to get passed my first hurdle, by reading Leiyah's question above, and realizing that this is a 'site collection feature'. Initially when I tried to activate the feature I was shown errors that access was denied to my web.config, but I fixed that.

However, now when I try to activate the feature I'm given a 'yellow screen of death', Server Error in '/' Application: Security Exception (System.Security.SecurityException: Access denied"). The stack trace start with…
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[SecurityException: Access denied.]
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPersistedObject.BaseUpdate() +27021963
Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebApplication.ApplyWebConfigModifications() +27087521
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I'm logged into the server directly, with an admin account, and I'm using SharePoint with an admin/owner account too.

Any ideas what the problem might be?

By: QMKevin

QMKevin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:41:21 +0000

Hi Waldek. I've been looking for a /go/ style feature, so I'm trying to install yours. Unfortunately even though I ran the 'install.cmd' file and both stsadm lines return 'Operation completed successfully', I'm not seeing anything in SharePoint. I'm using SharePoint 2010, so I updated the cmd files to use \14\ instead of \12\ for stsadm, and my site is '@URL' is simply 'http://ec2-devmoss1' without any sites specified. Does anything strike you as wrong in this configuration? Where should I see GoCodes? I checked the features of the ec2-devmoss1 site, the central admin and the web apps, but nothing jumps out at me. Hope you can help, even all these years later :)

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:24:14 +0000

@leiyah: have you tried disabling custom errors to get some more information about the error that you are getting?