Admin .aspx tool is not loading, file is downloaded

Kristoffer Lindén

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Hi!

Hi have installed a admin tool plugin that is an aspx, works just fine on my developing machine but when I deploy to my test servers the file is not loading, instead the .aspx file is downloaded?
Why is that? All other .aspx files i the Epi admin works just fine so the server can handle .aspx files.

The url for the GUI plugin is like "/modules/myplugin/myfile.aspx" and the link looks just fine in Episerver but when I click it the aspx file gets downloaded?

Any ideas?

Thanks!

/Kristoffer

#254683

May 11, 2021 15:14

Quan Mai

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I would suggest to compare your dev and production web.config. Looks like one or more handlers are missing

#254684

May 11, 2021 17:45

Kristoffer Lindén

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Hi!

Thanks for the tip, that was it!

On the server I found this:

<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <add name="wildcard" path="*" verb="*" type="EPiServer.Web.StaticFileHandler, EPiServer.Framework.AspNet" />
    </handlers>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

That one was not in my web.config on dev.

I can see that you have used this in you post about securing a location:

Securing a Static Folder | Episerver Developer Community

And that make sense. Any guess why the original developer har put this in the "main" system.WebServer?

Thanks!

/Kristoffer

#254686

May 11, 2021 20:55

Kristoffer Lindén

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Hi!

Without that line no css is loading, static files, and with that line the plugin does not load. Any ideas why?

/Kristoffer

#254725

May 12, 2021 6:35

Quan Mai

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Looks like you need this in your production web.config

#254727

May 12, 2021 7:15

Kristoffer Lindén

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Almost, I had to add this:

<location path="modules/MyPluginFolder">
    <system.webServer>
      <handlers>
        <clear />
        <add name="PageHandlerFactory-Integrated-4.0" path="*.aspx" verb="GET,HEAD,POST,DEBUG" type="System.Web.UI.PageHandlerFactory" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />
      </handlers>
    </system.webServer>
  </location>

Thanks for your help!

/Kristoffer

#254728

May 12, 2021 8:15

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