C: \ ınetpub \ wwwroot \ mysite \ website \ sitecore \ shell \ overriding is not allowed.

Question

I install sitecore 6.4, but after logging in I accept this error

The directory name c: \ ınetpub \ wwwroot \ mysite \ website \ sitecore \ shell \ override is not valid. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. View the stack trace for more information about the error and its occurrence in the code.

I uninstall sitecore and install again, but the result is the same. Someone can help me.

Answer 1

By default, this folder is not created when creating a new Sitecore installation. You have had this many times, and essentially you have to manually create a folder, and also make sure that the application pool identifier has write permissions to this folder. If you have a solution for Visual Studio open, close it and close it again, because when you start webdev, the change will not be achieved.

Answer 2

I ran into this problem. My problem was that my project was implemented on Git, and I was trying to pull files from Git to local to configure the project.

The problem with Git is that it does not transfer empty folders, therefore \ website \ sitecore \ shell \ override was not attached to the repo, and when I pulled, the folder did not exist on my local one either.

Creating a folder manually solved the problem.

Answer 3

As mentioned in @ pranav-shah, git does not support adding empty folders, so if you use git and you are doing clean builds, you are probably facing this problem.

To get around this, you can simply create an empty file in the override folder. I recommend following the sentence in this and calling it .keep

Answer 4

Whenever I come across this, the application pool identifier does not have write permission to the folder. Often applied also to the following folders in the sitecore directory: * shell \ controls \ debug * shell \ applications \ debug

(I think there is another one, but too tired to remember right now).

If you run the installer, it usually takes care of these problems. Also see manual installation instructions in the Sitecore documentation available on the Sitecore developer network.