Alfresco 5.0 Community unable to create folders within share

Question

I am trying to deploy Alfresco Community 5.0 on Windows Server 2012 R2, with IIS 8 and I have run into a little bit of a pickle. Currently, everything seems to be functioning as expected except for the creation of folders. I can add files and users, so I'm not really sure where to start.

When I try to create a new folder within the share site I am prompted with "Could not create 'new folder'. Duplicate folder name?" and I am entering a random name.

I checked the alfresco.log file and there is nothing in there.

If you need any extra information let me know.

IIS threw this exception.

Event code: 3005 Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred. Event time: 3/10/2015 9:13:17 AM Event time (UTC): 3/10/2015 3:13:17 PM Event ID: 2a27fe7511504646bdc5cf85b4f428c1 Event sequence: 90 Event occurrence: 5 Event detail code: 0

Application information: Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT-1-130704715600439291 Trust level: Full Application Virtual Path: / Application Path: C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\ Machine name: WEDNESDAY

Process information: Process ID: 3352 Process name: w3wp.exe Account name: IIS APPPOOL\\DefaultAppPool

Exception information: Exception type: HttpException Exception message: A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (:). at System.Web.HttpRequest.ValidateInputIfRequiredByConfig() at System.Web.HttpApplication.PipelineStepManager.ValidateHelper(HttpContext context)

Request information: Request URL: http://wednesday/share/proxy/alfresco/api/type/cm:folder/formprocessor Request path: /share/proxy/alfresco/api/type/cm:folder/formprocessor User host address: 10.000.00.00 User: Is authenticated: False Authentication Type: Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\\DefaultAppPool

Thread information: Thread ID: 8 Thread account name: IIS APPPOOL\\DefaultAppPool Is impersonating: False Stack trace: at System.Web.HttpRequest.ValidateInputIfRequiredByConfig() at System.Web.HttpApplication.PipelineStepManager.ValidateHelper(HttpContext context)

Answer 1

asp.net 4.0 has quite extensive url validation. When Alfresco creates a folder it uses alfresco/api/type/cm:folder/formprocessor as the url. The validation rejects the use of : in url's so I added a regex function within my asp.net web.config file.

system.web>

httpRuntime requestPathInvalidCharacters="<,>,%,&,\\,?" />

/system.web>

All of the other special characters are still getting validated, but I did not include ":" so now the url is allowed through.