KENTICO 8 - Missing value or key 'CMSApplicationGuid' in web.config file

Leandro Filipczyk asked on June 9, 2014 16:30

Hello, currently I am trying to usie KIM to update a migrated site (We migrated it from kentico 5.5 and some ecommerce features didnt got installed properly). Because of this, I want to modify the installation, in order to add the ecommerce features. When I open up the instance of the site from KIM, the Kentico installer pops, I select modify, and a list of my installed kentico instances appear. I select the one I want to update, and I get a "Missing value or key 'CMSApplicationGuid' in web.config file" popup. That key and the CMSApplicationName are both present in web.config.

Why could this be happening?

Thanks!

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Leandro Filipczyk answered on June 11, 2014 11:52

I'll answer myself on this one. I fixed the issue by renaming the folder were my Kentico installation was to "CMS".

Thanks!

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Martin Danko answered on June 10, 2014 05:39 (last edited on June 10, 2014 05:40)

Hi Leandro,

So your website is working without any problem under version 7?

How exactly does look your < appSettings > section in the web.config file?

You can eventually try to install a clean installation of Kentico 8 and then use the export/import functionality.

Best regards, Martin

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Leandro Filipczyk answered on June 10, 2014 07:26

Hello Martin, thanks for your response. Since we were not using ecommerce features on our previous site, I really dont know if the migration to 7 actually had all the ecommerce webparts/templates/doctypes, but the site was functional on its version 7.

This is what my appsettings looks like:

<!-- KENTICO RELATED CONFIGURATION START -->
    <add key="CMSProgrammingLanguage" value="C#"/>
    <add key="CMSTrialKey" value="CU05-20110105-xxxxxx"/>
    <!-- <add key="CMSTrialKey" value="CX08-20140605-xxxxxx" /> -->
    <add key="ChartImageHandler" value="storage=session;timeout=20;" />
    <add key="CMSApplicationGuid" value="9e5b8955-246d-4b0b-a5f7-ae90b4c3e86d" />
    <add key="CMSApplicationName" value="Default Web Site/7.0.4640.25309_FINAL_NET40_PROJ" />
    <add key="WS.webservice" value="http://localhost/WebService/webservice.asmx"/>

    <add key="CMSWYSIWYGFixXHTML" value="false" />
    <add key="CMSWYSIWYGFixXHTMLResolve" value="false" />
    <add key="CMSLogOutputToFile" value="false" />
    <add key="CMSDebugOutput" value="true" />    

    <!-- Kentico 8 added config start -->
    <add key="PageInspector:ServerCodeMappingSupport" value="Disabled" />
    <add key="CMSHashStringSalt" value="6c032508-8921-4d32-bf43-7fbed97324d6" />
    <add key="CMSDisplayApplicationErrorMessages" value="true"/>
  <add key="CMSDebugMacros" value="true"/>
    <!-- Kentico 8 added config end -->

    <!-- KENTICO RELATED CONFIGURATION END -->

I have a side fresh kentico 8 installation, and I actually thought about the import feature, but I was not sure if that would import EVERYTHING ( webparts, doctypes, templates, transformations, and store configuration). Do you think that is the case?

Thanks again!

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