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The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Jul 20

Posted by: Antonio Chagoury
7/20/2007 7:28 AM

Recently Microsoft posted a patch that has caused many of you DNN Blog users a lot of grief, so much grief, that the Blog forum is floaded with topics such as: "HELP!", "CANNOT ADD BLOG" and so on.

First, let me say that I am not blaming Microsoft, in fact, this is clearly our fault! (See "How to Fix" section)

Symptom:When try to Edit or Add and new Blog entry you get the following error message:

 

Error: Edit Entry is currently unavailable.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: The server tag is not well formed. ---> System.Web.HttpParseException: The server tag is not well formed. ---> System.Web.HttpException: The server tag is not well formed. at System.Web.UI.TemplateParser.ProcessError(String message) at  ...

If you are not logged in as an admin, all you get this error message:

An error has occurred.Error: Edit Entry is currently unavailable.

 

How to Fix: 

This error is caused by an invalid characted located in the file called EditEntry.ascx. This character has an accent in it causing the crash.

For full disclosure, this (now) invalid character has been in the code for quite a while, probably since its first public release.

  1. Open DesktopModules\Blog\EditEntry.ascx
  2. Go to line 21
  3. Look for the string matching "ResourcêKey " (notice the funky "e")
  4. Replace "ê" with "e"
  5. Save and upload

This fix will get you up and running once again.

If you continue experiencing issues even after this fix please post it on the Blog forum and we'll try our best to get you fixed up again.

DNN Blog users should also expect to see this fix in the next release of the Blog module (03.04.00).

Thank you all for your patience.

Nuke Happy!

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47 comments so far...

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Hi Antonio, thanks for posting fix, i hope all blog users see this fix.

By greenflash on   7/20/2007 9:43 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

That's the intent for this post ;)

By AntonioChagoury on   7/20/2007 9:43 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

big senks )

By Dungeon on   7/20/2007 9:50 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Thank you Antonio,. you saved our life.

By DP on   7/20/2007 3:09 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Hmmm ...
Want to know the funny thing ... this is a bug that I reported about 4 versions ago that was rejected as - not being a problem.

Go figure.

By Westa on   7/22/2007 5:08 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

You're a lifesaver! Thanks. I would never have found this on my own.

By Joe on   7/23/2007 12:00 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

I saw the problem just after applied MS patch. Luckly I found this solution from forum at once. That's 13, July, Friday. Not a bad ""Black Friday", right!

By czhang on   7/24/2007 8:57 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

nice work guys, and thanks for being on top of this one.

By Benny_A on   7/31/2007 7:22 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Amazing.. I would never have found it. I am having the same issue with my edit events - so will see if I can find the same solution for it.

By Rebecca on   7/30/2007 8:01 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Hi - I was really pleased to find this via a Google search. Thanks.

BUT I find the Blogs on my own site do not get picked up by Google. How can I persuade Google to visit my blogs?

By RHowells on   8/3/2007 12:32 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Thanks, all happened whiles I was on holiday - server patched itself. Serves me right really! Jason.

By jason68@mac.com on   8/3/2007 12:34 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

tx tx tx

By christosch on   8/3/2007 12:33 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

It also was helpful to restart the app (as superuser) after the upload of the modified page.

By RolfMasuch on   8/6/2007 9:35 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

I think the file EditEntry.ascx in the Install Package should be updated to include this fix. I just downloaded and installed it and it is still broken a month after a known problem with it?

By Brad on   8/6/2007 9:11 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

@Brad: This has been release. You can find it packaged with DNN 4.5.5

By AntonioChagoury on   8/6/2007 9:36 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!... what about paging?

Why is there no paging in this Blog Module?

Is there a plan to integrate paging?

I'm sure I'm not the first one to ask this... And I know all my clients using the Blog Module have been asking me for quite some time now...

By nxtjv on   8/10/2007 6:51 AM

The server tag is not well formed - FIX IT

This bug has been there for a while now. At the expense of being facetious, SHOULD'NT THE DEVELOPERS JUST CHANGE IT IN THE ASPX file? That would help a lot guys.

By Brian on   8/10/2007 5:34 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

@Brian: This has been fixed and is packaged with DNN 4.5.5.

By AntonioChagoury on   8/10/2007 6:51 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Thanks!

By chitresh2005 on   8/16/2007 9:25 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Thank you. The fix was easy after reading here. (don't know how you found the funky ê hidden in the code, and knew that it was causing the problem WTG)
I just ftp downloaded the file from my web space, opened it in notepad, did find "ResourcêKey", fixed the e, saved and uploaded it back. Then i restarted the app and am back to bloging :)

By neolythic on   8/16/2007 9:26 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

@chitresh2005 & neolythic: You guys are welcome!

By AntonioChagoury on   8/16/2007 9:26 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Sorry about being a newbie, but how should we fix this if we are using GoDaddy.com to host our website?

By Gerry on   8/22/2007 11:38 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

tnx alot!

By inman on   8/26/2007 5:32 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

As you know by now Antonio the fix did not make it into 4.5.5. Just pointing it out for others to save them time.

By TraeMarshall on   8/28/2007 8:47 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

@TraeMarshall: I am quite sure it is in there.

By AntonioChagoury on   8/28/2007 8:48 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

I've been pulling my hair out on this one for days now! Clearly I need to use these forums in future. Thanks heaps from this DNN newbie!

By exl on   8/30/2007 7:48 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

I too am hosting a site on GoDaddy's Metropolis. While I was able to edit the file (Gerry, go to your hosting, check out the FTP page, find the directory you installed Metropolis DNN into, and you have full access to the DNN files), after I uploaded, I still had an error.

My error is different though. I'm getting "DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: The Runat attribute must have the value Server." It felt like the same problem, all of a sudden I couldn't add/edit posts. My guess is GoDaddy updated their servers. I'm hoping that restarting the application might fix this, but I can't figure out how to schedule a restart with Metropolis.

Any thoughts?

By shnar on   10/4/2007 2:32 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Nice to hear all the success stories. However, I made the prescribed edit and still get the error (v. 4.05.03). Tried it on three different portals with the same result.

Any other ideas?

By msmith_lv on   10/4/2007 2:32 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

thank you for the fix

su

By su on   9/21/2007 4:02 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

You're a life saver. I was worried for a second. Keep up the good work.

By jjovic on   9/24/2007 7:22 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

You're a life saver. I was worried for a second. Keep up the good work.

By jjovic on   9/24/2007 3:40 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

OMG thank you! I've been using the blog module for over a year and it just broke for no apparent reason today. I'd been bashing my head against a wall for the better part of the morning.
-Kevin Savage

By kevinsavage on   10/4/2007 2:32 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

thanks for your fix. Its saved me from a terrible situation.

By Praveen on   10/5/2007 12:44 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

First: Thanks. Second: These nasty little bugs have got to be squished prior to release. This VERY HELPFUL post was put on this DNN site blog over THREE MONTHS AGO! This time I was "lucky", and discovered this bug after it had been running for only 2 days. Why do I keep running into install problems like this that seem to be ignored by the team that creates the deployment packages? It's not possible for me to regression test all the sites, pages and modules running on my server prior to an upgrade. I'm counting on THE TEAM to get stuff like this fixed so I can truly count on DNN and continue recommending it to others. .......of course, good job, you're a life saver, etc..... but jeeesh....

By Stein on   10/23/2007 9:23 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

@stein: All DNN team members are taking a 50% pay-cut for lack of productivity and dedication :P

Jokes apart, a patch for this was released recently (version 03.03.01)

By AntonioChagoury on   10/23/2007 10:02 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Yip, had me for a few hours, it had to conincide with me moving my site, so I thought it was something I had done!!! Much appreciated the quick fix - now I can get some sleep.
Cheers

By rafMan on   10/29/2007 4:08 AM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

Yip, had me for a few hours, it had to conincide with me moving my site, so I thought it was something I had done!!! Much appreciated the quick fix - now I can get some sleep.
Cheers

By rafMan on   10/29/2007 12:55 PM

Re: The server tag is not well formed, oh my!

This bug is still present in 4.4.7