Exception when starting EPiServer website

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/204404

episerver

03-07-2019
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Question

We're developing an EPiServer-based website and trying to deploy our latest build onto a WinXP IIS6 box.

When browsing to site, we're getting the following stack trace

[ClassFactoryException: ClassFactory not initialized]
   EPiServer.BaseLibrary.ClassFactory.get_Instance() +123
   EPiServer.BaseLibrary.Context.get_Repository() +14
   EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation.StorageProviders.ObjectStoreStorageProvider.VerifyCommonSchemas() +15
   EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation.AspNetWorkflowManager.get_StorageProvider() +44
   EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation.AspNetWorkflowManager.Initialize(Boolean lazyLoading) +589
   EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation.AspNetWorkflowManager.get_InstanceHandler() +16
   EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation.Workflows.ApprovalService..ctor() +93

[TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.]
   System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck) +0
   System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean fillCache) +103
   System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache) +261
   System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic) +66
   EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation.WorkflowSystem.RegisterServices(IWorkflowManager manager, WorkflowSettingsElement configuration) +338
   EPiServer.WorkflowFoundation.WorkflowSystem.Init(HttpApplication context) +240
   System.Web.HttpApplication.InitModules() +267
   System.Web.HttpApplication.InitInternal(HttpContext context, HttpApplicationState state, MethodInfo[] handlers) +1251
   System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory.GetNormalApplicationInstance(HttpContext context) +243
   System.Web.HttpApplicationFactory.GetApplicationInstance(HttpContext context) +106
   System.Web.HttpRuntime.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpWorkerRequest wr) +214

I've googled it, and visited the EPiServer forums, but I've not found any concrete suggestions or solutions. Has anyone else out there run into this?

Ross

Solution

The configuration file is written for IIS7 but you build in webserver in Studio want a IIS6 sonfig file. I have wrote abut this in ny EPiServer notes http://epiwiki.se/troubleshooting/classfactory-not-initialized

OTHER TIPS

I am going out on a limb and guessing here, but did you by chance do development on EPiServer 5 SP 2 and deploy on EPiServer 5 SP 3?

In EPiServer 5 SP3 there was some remodelling in how a EPiServer handles the initialization of the application. These changes made it so that it's not possible to hook into the datafactory events in Application_Start. Instead you need to first hook into Application_FirstBeginRequest and then we have a instance of the DataFactory to work with.