Invalid URL

[Cobweb]

When verifying the location of a site to be published via FTP we get the following error invalid URL with the foloowing log entry:

Creation date Tuesday, May 01, 2007 2:13:51 PM
Level Warning
Source System
Class name SWsoft.SiteBuilder.BO.Facade.Publish.LocationChecker
User name sbadmin
Representative
IP address 192.168.31.15
Requested URL /Admin/SiteMgmt/SiteList.aspx
Referrer URL
User agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Message Publish Location checker, CheckStatic step error
System.UriFormatException: Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined.
at System.Uri.CreateThis(String uri, Boolean dontEscape, UriKind uriKind)
at System.Net.WebRequest.Create(String requestUriString)
at SWsoft.SiteBuilder.BO.Facade.Publish.LocationChecker.CheckStatic()


The target webserver shows the following in its FTP log:

13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]USER ghs\testing 331 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]PASS - 230 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD Test7dc56939-d972-4563-9ca8-d2220fe77130/ 550 2
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]MKD Test7dc56939-d972-4563-9ca8-d2220fe77130/ 257 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD Test7dc56939-d972-4563-9ca8-d2220fe77130/ 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]RMD Test7dc56939-d972-4563-9ca8-d2220fe77130/ 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD App_Data/ 550 2
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]MKD App_Data/ 257 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD Testd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a/ 550 2
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]MKD Testd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a/ 257 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD Testd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a/ 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:49 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD Testd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a/ 250 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]created /danielnoakes/Testd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a/test.html 226 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]created /danielnoakes/verifyd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a.aspx 226 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]created /danielnoakes/Testd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a/web.config 226 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD Bin/ 550 2
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]MKD Bin/ 257 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD Bin/ 250 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:50 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD Bin/ 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]created /danielnoakes/Bin/SWsoft.SiteBuilder.PublishClientCheck.dll 226 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD App_Data/ 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD App_Data/ 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD App_Data/ 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]RMD App_Data/ 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]DELE Testd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a/test.html 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]DELE Testd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a/web.config 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD Testd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a/ 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]RMD Testd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a/ 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]DELE verifyd832cbc5-6353-470d-b286-9b45cd19ac1a.aspx 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]DELE Bin/SWsoft.SiteBuilder.PublishClientCheck.dll 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:51 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD Bin/ 250 0
13:13:52 192.168.31.15 [588]CWD /danielnoakes 250 0
13:13:52 192.168.31.15 [588]RMD Bin/ 250 0

This proves the software is logging into the server but seems to fail when creating the site.

Please can somebody help?

 

[Alex Klimov]

Unfortunately message "Invalid URL" appears for vary various errors.
According to logs you could have problems with publication place. Please check that it has been adjusted correctly.
More information about publication place requirements you could see here:
http://download1.swsoft.com/SiteBuilder/Windows/docs/3.2/en_US/sitebuilder-3.2-win-admins-guide/

 

[Cobweb]

Many thanks.

I managed to resolve the issue using a localhost file