Header problems using themes/master pages in 2.0

Christophe Peillet

I have an application that works fine on localhost, but when it is deployed
to a production server, I get the following error:

Using themed css files requires a header control on the page. (e.g. <head
runat="server" />).

I am using themes and a single Master Page for the application, with the
theme being set globally in the web.config file <page theme="xxx" /> is, off
the top of my head, the markup, though don't quote me on that. ;-)

I don't get this error locally, and don't understand really what the problem
is. I am not able to add the <head> tag directly into the pages (this gives
me a validation error), and it is clearly marked in the master page,
including the runat="server" attribute.

Any ideas? I'm supposed to deploy this site by tommorow morning, sigh. ;-(

Christophe

May 31 '06 #1

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Christophe Peillet

Strangely, I notice this problem only happens when I put an empty path (such
as http://server/foldername) ... if I put a full url
(http://server/foldername/default.aspx) it works fine. This is still
unacceptable to me, though, since many users will drop the page name and they
would be right to expect that raw path should work as well (and it's also
nicer to site just the path in manuals, etc.)

I noticed this because I found a site where someone else had the same
problem and made this observation:
http://community.discountasp.net/pr.aspx?f=24&m=6791

May 31 '06 #2

Steven Cheng[MSFT]

Hello Christophe,

Thank you for posting.

From your description, you've developed an ASP.NET 2.0 web site application
which uses a single master page and some global Theme resources(skin and
css style). This works well in development machine but failed on the
production server, correct?

According to your application's structure and scenario, I've performed som
tests in my local test environment(win dows 2003 server , .net framework
2.0/vs 2005...), however, failed to reproduce the same behavior.
Generally, such issue is likely environment specific. And I've also checked
the method involved in the error callstack you mentioned:

PageTheme.SetSt yleSheet()

It just simply check the container Page's "Header" property and the
"Header" property should have been correctly assigned for your scenario.
BTW, is the problem specific to MasterPage based pages? If you creating a
non-Master page based page (which applies some Theme and stylesheet), will
it also suffer the problem? In addition, you can try testing it on some
other server machine to see whether it occurs(confirm whether it is project
specific issue), if only on that parituclar production server, we may need
to concentrate on the ASP.NET environment on that machine.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support
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