While setting up a new installation of Dynamic Web (my first attempt) I'm getting an error as soon as the application starts. I'll also note that I thought the documentation for new installations is quite lacking. For example actually locating the Default database backup was not straight forward and it's also not clear what actually needs to be added to the Files directory. Those problems aside I'd like to get this copy of Dynamic Web 8 working for evaluation purposes.
ASP.NET Stack Trace
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Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Source Error:
An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.
Stack Trace:
[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
Dynamicweb.Base.SetGs(String Path, String Value, Boolean UseCDATA) +1316
Dynamicweb.Frontend.GlobalAsaxHandler.ApplicationStart(Object sender, EventArgs e) +491
Dynamicweb.Frontend.GlobalAsaxHandler.Application_AuthenticateRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) +39
System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +79
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +164