Hello,

I've recently installed DNN 4.4.1, and applied a custom skin to it.  The skin installs fine (no errors reported), but when I try to apply it to a page, it's nowhere to be found in the skins list.  As a test I tried applying some previous templates that I had purchased and had the identical problem.

I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to fix this.
Thanks,
SA

Hey Shiraz:

What version of DNN was the skin made for?  If it's 3.x, there are some minor changes that must be made to the ascx file (I don't use the html/xml procedure).  Is this an ascx skin or did you have an html/xml skin that you uploaded?

The skin, if successfully uploaded should be in your /Portals/_default/Skins folder (if you installed them as host).  If you want to just skip a step and have the ascx files, you can just place the skin folder in the /Portals/_default/Skins folder and that should work.  Just make sure that your skin ascx file has a first line that looks like the following:

<%@ Control language="vb" CodeBehind="~/admin/Skins/skin.vb" AutoEventWireup="false" Explicit="True" Inherits="DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin" %>

Hope this helps.

Hello,

Also, I would check how you have packaged your skin.  When you zip up your skin you need to just zip the skin files and not the folder that contains the skin files. Open your zip file and see if there is a folder inside it containing your skin files, if there is DotNetNuke will not be able to install your skin.

Thanks,