Installing Multiple Graffiti CMS Sites

Thursday, June 05 2008 - , - 0 comments

I ran into a problem this week when I tried to install a second Graffiti CMS web site on my hosted web server at OrcsWeb. The root of my server has 1 Graffiti instance already (what you are reading now). I added a second instance in a subfolder that I turned into an IIS Application / Virtual Directory. There were a few problems I had to work through, with the help of Jayme at Telligent and Scott at OrcsWeb (thanks guys!).

First, the web.config of the root site was being inherited by the application (in the sub folder) So the Graffiti connectiongString setting was duplicated and the second instance of Graffiti (the new one) was throwing an error. This was resolved by putting the <clear/> tag inside the <connectionStrings> tags in the sub application.

Second …. At that point I could not get it to throw an error anymore … the site just timed out. This one was resolved by Scott at OrcsWeb. You can read about his solution here.

So now I have 2 Graffiti instances running in different apps on my server. These guys were great in assisting me. They deserve kudos for their customer service.

Feeling Blue

Wednesday, May 07 2008 - - 0 comments

Today I decided to try out a new theme for my site. Rich Mercer has a handful of nice themes posted in his site including this one, which is a variation of the Point Space Blue theme. I'm going to try it out and see where it takes me. Its a pretty clean theme though there are a few items I need to touch up for certain. Hey if anything, my daughter likes this one the best so far.

I have been thrilled with the flexibility and the low maintenance of Graffiti CMS. I spend so much less time fixing problems than I used to with other products that I will leave unnamed.

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JohnPapa.NET is Open for BusinRSS

Saturday, April 19 2008 - , , , , , , - 0 comments

No that's not a typo in the title ... it's my poor attempt at dry humor :)

I have had several questions from people over the past few months regarding my noticeable sparseness in blogging at www.codebetter.com, my blogging home for the past 3 years. The truth is that it took me a while to get back to setting up my new blogging home at www.johnpapa.net . I used the various beta versions of Graffiti CMS to get it started and then I recently migrated the site over to the release version of Graffiti. I must say that Graffiti is perfect for my needs. I can consolidate my posts, organize my events, articles, and add some ASP.NET and SilverLight aspects, too.

So what will you find on www.johnpapa.net ? You will find my usual technical posts as well as a listing of all of the articles I have published (the books listing is not there yet) and all of the events I will be speaking at as they get scheduled and confirmed.

Will I still post to www.CodeBetter.com ? Yes, I will still cross post some content to www.CodeBetter.com but the superset of the posts will be on www.johnpapa.net including technical content, reviews, and opinions.

So please add my new site www.johnpapa.net to your aggregated feed  list http://feeds.feedburner.com/JohnPapa.

I'll be at DevConnections this coming week in Orlando, so if you are going to be around please stop by one of my sessions on windows mobile development, LINQ, the Entity Framework or SQL Server Reporting Services and say hi!