Ismet posted on September 16, 2009 16:00
Sometimes people receive random errors while installing or changing skins from DotNetNuke Host and Admin pages.
If you are one of those people who receive following error:
Error: Skins is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. --->
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at
DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.SkinDefaults..ctor(SkinDefaultType DefaultType) at DotNetNuke.Common.Globals.get_DefaultSkin() at
DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Skins.EditSkins.isFallbackSkin(String skinPath) at
DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Skins.EditSkins.ProcessSkins(String strFolderPath) at
DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Skins.EditSkins.ShowSkins() at DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Skins.EditSkins.LoadSkins() at
DotNetNuke.Modules.Admin.Skins.EditSkins.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Check your DotNetNuke.config file and ensure that it has an entry for SkinningDefaults after BlockRequest tag like following:
<skinningdefaults>
<skininfo admindefault="Horizontal Menu - Fixed Width.ascx" default="Horizontal Menu - Fixed Width.ascx" folder="/DNN-Blue/">
<containerinfo admindefault="Image Header - Color Background.ascx" default="Image Header - Color Background.ascx" folder="/DNN-Blue/">
</containerinfo>
</skininfo></skinningdefaults>
