You can find a screenshot here: http://twitpic.com/3k4f7a

Regards.

Hi 654,
Welcome to the community.

The problem that you are running into is that skins can actually be installed in two different places. You are looking in Admin > Skins but I think that you want to be looking in Host > Skins.

Still no luck at all, there is no Skins option under the Host section.

I did a new installation in localhost and the skins are available, but if I move the application to the public server (www.domain.com) the skins disappear and I double checked ASPNET and NETWORK SERVICE users have full control permissions.

Someone suggested this but didn't work:

"go to file manager in admin menu and resync recursively all files (option in top right corner). go to site settings and check for available host skins"

Any ideas?

You'll find the skins listed under Host, Extensions these days.

Finally, a hint!

The physical path to the skins seems to be corrupted

There is a SUB:
Private Sub ProcessSkins(ByVal strFolderPath As String, ByVal type As String)

In the control that process the skins:
DesktopModules\Admin\Skins\EditSkins.ascx.vb

My application is under c:\sites\client\dnn56 where SITES is the website, CLIENT is a regular folder and DNN56 is the application

But the parameter strFolderPath is receiving a duplicated unit and folder:
c:\sites\client\dnn56c:\sites\client\dnn56\portals\_default\skins\minimalextropy

I applied a simple replace to remove the first section to have a value like this:
c:\sites\client\dnn56\portals\_default\skins\minimalextropy

And the skins are displayed!

So... Now I have to figure out what is causing that error, any ideas?

If that string is in the database, you could go in and fix it.

QUICK FIX!

In the control that process the skins:
DesktopModules\Admin\Skins\EditSkins.ascx.vb

There is a SUB that adds items to the DropDownList (that drop down list ultimately is used to load the skins):
Private Sub AddSkinstoCombo(ByVal combo As DropDownList, ByVal strRoot As String)

The problem is that AddSkinstoCombo should remove a part of the path from the strFolder variable but it doesn't.

This is the variable - strFolder = c:\sites\customer\dnn56\portals\_default\skins\minimalextropy
That should end like this - strFolder = portals\_default\skins\minimalextropy
By removing the value from - ApplicationMapPath = C:\sites\customer\DNN56

But because of the case of the values it doesn't do that (note the capital C and dnn56 in upper case in the ApplicationMapPath variable), so I fixed it by using ToLower to all of them:

Before: combo.Items.Add(New ListItem(strName, strFolder.Replace(ApplicationMapPath, "").ToLower))

After: combo.Items.Add(New ListItem(strName, strFolder.ToLower.Replace(ApplicationMapPath.ToLower, "").ToLower))

I'll post an update as soon as I understand what causes the problem.

Itmwould be a good idea to report this to the DotNetNuke team. I believe that is support.DotNetNuke.com.