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Tracking Down Old Skin Reference

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jacton
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10/7/2025 12:56 PM

Hello,

I'm seeing these errors in the admin logs.  The skin in reference was removed as part of a clean up process.

I queried the db to verify no pages are referencing that skin file, but I still see these messages in the logs.

Any other ideas where I should look or how to track down specifically what's calling it?

Thanks

jacton
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10/7/2025 12:57 PM

I guess it would help if I posted the screenshot :)

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10/8/2025 2:45 AM
You might triple check portal settings for the edit theme
jacton
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10/8/2025 3:49 PM

Thanks, Mitchel.

I checked that again with a db query with no luck.

I've queried/looked everywhere I can think of.

At this point I may just put the skin back to avoid these errors.

James Clarkson
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10/8/2025 4:42 PM
Hi - have you checked if there is still a reference to that file in one of the .template files in /Portals/0/Templates ?
jacton
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10/8/2025 4:58 PM

Thanks, James.

That's a suggestion I hadn't thought of.

I checked all template files in all portal folders with no luck.

Bogdan Litescu
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10/8/2025 5:47 PM
Some other thing to check.
Perhaps something is loading the page with ?skinsrc=... in the query string. You could check IIS logs easily.
I tried this on an instance with invalid skin in query string and got the exact same error in the log.
jacton
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10/8/2025 6:40 PM

Appreciate it, Bogdan!

You're absolutely correct.

I thought I'd checked IIS logs already, but I found it there.

Basically I recently put in some 301 redirects for an old site and it was keeping the &SkinSrc part of the URL.  I'll get those updated and that should fix it.

Thanks again!

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