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Need guidance in debugging this DNN issue

I'm a beginner with DotNetNuke and am having trouble debugging this problem. We are using DNN version 5.

On our local development machines our DNN site renders just fine. But we recently deployed to our test server and on there the site only renders fine when logged in as the Host. When viewing the site as just a normal visitor, all the styles are messed up -- it is just a white page with images gone and menus stacked vertically.

Clues / Notes:

  1. We recently added a new .ascx and module
  2. There are javascript errors, but it hard to tell what is causing them
  3. You may ask about the Log Viewer screen. I looked there and I see exceptions, but I think the exceptions there are unrelated ( will look into this)
  4. Works fine in our local dev environment
  5. In server, only renders fine when logged on as Host

What are some steps I can take to try to debug this? Where else can I look besides the Event Viewer to see what is going on here?

Thanks!

Solution

  • This solved it:

    https://stackoverflow.com/a/3831419/614263

    Due to permission settings it looks like IIS was blocking requests from the root to javascripts and css files. When looking at the Network traffic in FireFox I noticed that 404 errors were coming from "login.aspx?ReturnURL=../../blahblah.css"

    Thanks for all your help and suggestions.