Hi, I'm new to Umbraco and I'm trying to help out an organization whose website has been orpaned by the company that built it in the first place, a company is no longer among us...
The problem is in the first place that I'm unable to get into the editor for the templates. Everything else seems to work, and the frontend work, but as soon as I try to open a template in Settings -> Template I get the following error.
Server Error in '/' Application.
Parser Error
Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.
Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'Umbraco.Web.UI.Umbraco.Settings.EditTemplate'.
Source Error:
Line 1: <%@ Page MasterPageFile="../masterpages/umbracoPage.Master" Language="c#" CodeBehind="EditTemplate.aspx.cs"
Line 2: ValidateRequest="false" AutoEventWireup="True" Inherits="Umbraco.Web.UI.Umbraco.Settings.EditTemplate" %>
Line 3:
Source File: /umbraco/settings/editTemplate.aspx Line: 1
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.7.3535.0
Umbraco version 7.13.1
Does anyone have a good solution/workaround? I don't have FTP or server access at the moment.
Thank you! I'll try to get remote or FTP access to the server tomorrow and examine the config file. All I've got for now is an admin login for the Umbraco backend, and I believe that I can't edit the config files from there.
I'll post an update as soon as I've accessed the file.
As seen above it lists all the templates, but the editor doesn't work.
Ok, I've requested credentials for the server, so hopefully I'll get access tomorrow. By just googling I couldn't find an backend file manager compatible with v7.
Apparently I can create a new template file, and when I create the new file it shows the editor and everything seems alright... But if I try to reopen the file, then I get the same error as above...
Now I have access... The file I created last night in the backend, Test2.master, is in /Views/ all the other template files are located in /masterpages/ ...is this normal or is there some kind of conflict somewhere?
Unable to edit templates
Hi, I'm new to Umbraco and I'm trying to help out an organization whose website has been orpaned by the company that built it in the first place, a company is no longer among us...
The problem is in the first place that I'm unable to get into the editor for the templates. Everything else seems to work, and the frontend work, but as soon as I try to open a template in Settings -> Template I get the following error.
Umbraco version 7.13.1
Does anyone have a good solution/workaround? I don't have FTP or server access at the moment.
Best regards Göran Westman
Hi Göran
It looks like the site was upgraded but trees.config wasn't updated accordingly.
Can you go to /config/trees.config file and update needed key with this:
Thanks,
Alex
Thank you! I'll try to get remote or FTP access to the server tomorrow and examine the config file. All I've got for now is an admin login for the Umbraco backend, and I believe that I can't edit the config files from there.
I'll post an update as soon as I've accessed the file.
You can edit config files from the backend if you install this package - https://our.umbraco.com/packages/developer-tools/config-tree/
Thank you, the package worked, but I'm afraid that the line in question is already present in the file.. in the
<!--Settings-->section... :(Ah sorry, probably my idea was wrong.
1) Let's check bin folder it should have "Umbraco.Web.UI.dll"
2) Check that templates under Views folder is allowed to be edited
As seen above it lists all the templates, but the editor doesn't work.
Ok, I've requested credentials for the server, so hopefully I'll get access tomorrow. By just googling I couldn't find an backend file manager compatible with v7.
Apparently I can create a new template file, and when I create the new file it shows the editor and everything seems alright... But if I try to reopen the file, then I get the same error as above...
Now I have access... The file I created last night in the backend, Test2.master, is in /Views/ all the other template files are located in /masterpages/ ...is this normal or is there some kind of conflict somewhere?
Hi Göran
It's some kind of conflict.
Umbraco doesn't support the editing of master pages from some version.
Can you check what rendering engine do you use in your site? If you go to /config/umbracoSettings.config and be check what is set in
Use masterpages is set to True (naturally), and rendering engine to WebForms.
Now when I have FTP access I can make template changes off site. But it would be nice to have the ability to change things from the backend.
It's not possible to edit WebForms master pages from the back office (( it's true
Ok, thank you for your efforts... 😀 Then off site it is... 😀
Next step is to set up a local mirror site where I can do my tweeking, Fiddling with unknown code on a live site doesn't feel like a good idea... 😀
But as said, thank you Alex for your help.
You are always welcome, Göran! Ask more questions :)
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