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Hi everyone.
I am new to this forum. My name is Jules and I have started using Concrete5 since this week. I seem to have a small problem and I hope that you could help me out. I have successfully installed Concrete5 on a windows server. I have followed the steps for creating a theme. I installed the theme and that works fine too. I run into problems when I want to activate it. I get a bad request error. Does anyone know how to solve this issue?
I am new to this forum. My name is Jules and I have started using Concrete5 since this week. I seem to have a small problem and I hope that you could help me out. I have successfully installed Concrete5 on a windows server. I have followed the steps for creating a theme. I installed the theme and that works fine too. I run into problems when I want to activate it. I get a bad request error. Does anyone know how to solve this issue?
Hi,
Thanks for replying. I tried it with other templates and the result is the same. It seems to have something to do with the colon (:) in the links. for some reason this colon is being converted to a percentage sign (%). Which makes it impossible to find by the system resulting in a bad request error. Do you know where I can change this colon from being used? Maybe replace it by an underscore?
Thanks for replying. I tried it with other templates and the result is the same. It seems to have something to do with the colon (:) in the links. for some reason this colon is being converted to a percentage sign (%). Which makes it impossible to find by the system resulting in a bad request error. Do you know where I can change this colon from being used? Maybe replace it by an underscore?
@JulesSpier
Did you create and test the theme on a local server?
Did the problem start when you moved it to the Windows server?
Is this a web host server or local server?
"It seems to have something to do with the colon (:) in the links. for some reason this colon is being converted to a percentage sign (%)."
Are you saying that "http://www.example.com" is loading as "http%//www.example.com"?
If so, I wonder if this is a server problem.
Did you create and test the theme on a local server?
Did the problem start when you moved it to the Windows server?
Is this a web host server or local server?
"It seems to have something to do with the colon (:) in the links. for some reason this colon is being converted to a percentage sign (%)."
Are you saying that "http://www.example.com" is loading as "http%//www.example.com"?
If so, I wonder if this is a server problem.
Hi MrkDilkington
The colon directly after the http are ok. its inside the url itself. The IIS server is configured in such a way that I cannot use colons in the url because of security issues I have ra-ead somewhere. Therefore all colons used in the url, apart from the "http://" are converted to "%". Which results in a bad request error. I read a post somewhere from wayback in 2010 that a person had solved this by replacing the colons an underscore in the generate and activate function. But I do not know where to find those function. Please find the url to tah post below:
http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-4-2-2/activating-themes-...
The colon directly after the http are ok. its inside the url itself. The IIS server is configured in such a way that I cannot use colons in the url because of security issues I have ra-ead somewhere. Therefore all colons used in the url, apart from the "http://" are converted to "%". Which results in a bad request error. I read a post somewhere from wayback in 2010 that a person had solved this by replacing the colons an underscore in the generate and activate function. But I do not know where to find those function. Please find the url to tah post below:
http://www.concrete5.org/developers/bugs/5-4-2-2/activating-themes-...
What is the full error?
If you download a free theme from the marketplace and activate it, do you receive an error?