Hi Ryan,

I have installed the forum software (btw great job man!) on our server.  My hoster allows me to configure a folder as an IIS application through a control panel.  So far, everything seems to be working except whenever I load any page, I get the following error at the top of the page (before any content):

Error finding forum skin directory. Please check the web.config settings and ensure everything is correct.

I have quadruply-checked my web.config settings and everything seems to be ok...I have pasted the important information in here, in case you can help me troubleshoot.

<!-- Name of your forums -->

<add key="InstantForum_AppName" value="canadianbowling.ca Messageboards"/>

<!-- Connection string for your database -->

<!-- Left out for security reasons... -->

<!-- Fully qualified URL to the forum front-end -->

<add key="InstantForum_URL" value="http://www.canadianbowling.ca/messageboards/"/>

<!-- Fully qualified URL to the forum administration -->

<add key="InstantForum_AdminURL" value="http://www.canadianbowling.ca/messageboards/admin/"/>

<!-- Full physical path to the application directory on your server -->

<add key="InstantForum_AppPath" value="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\htdocs\messageboards\"/>

<!-- Fully qualified URL to the forums attachment directory

The attachments directory is only used to stored users avatars and photos

Post attachments are stored within a binary database field and not on the file system -->

<add key="InstantForum_AttachmentURL" value="http://www.canadianbowling.ca/messageboards/attachments/"/>

<!-- Full physical path to the attachments directory on your server -->

<add key="InstantForum_AttachmentPath" value="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\htdocs\messageboards\attachments\"/>

<!-- Fully qualified URL to the forums skin directory -->

<add key="InstantForum_SkinURL" value="http://www.canadianbowling.ca/messageboards/skins/"/>

<!-- Full physical path to the forum skins directory on your server -->

<add key="InstantForum_SkinPath" value="c:\inetpub\wwwroot\htdocs\messageboards\skins\"/>

<!-- Enter the directory name of the default forum skin for anonymous users

The directory names can be found within the directory specified in InstantForum_SkinPath above -->

<add key="InstantForum_DefaultSkin" value="Classic"/>

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

Craig
canadianbowling.ca Team

Hi Craig,

Your settings certainly look correct however i would just double check this is indeed the correct physical path to your installation on your server. I've attached a test.aspx which you should upload to your server within the messageboard and request via your browser.

This will present a list of trace information including the full physical path to your web site directory. You should look for the APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH setting for the full path.

Please let me know if this helps

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