Using themes from Blogifier.Core is broken on Ubuntu about blogifier HOT 8 CLOSED

I was finally able to get everything working again on Ubuntu. To summarize, I took the following steps:

1. I generated a "refs" folder containing all of the required assemblies by adding <MvcRazorCompileOnPublish>false</MvcRazorCompileOnPublish> to the WebApp project. I copied the refs folder to the root web folder on Linux. I then removed the MvcRazorCompileOnPublish tag from my WebApp project.

2. I removed the _ViewImports.cshtml file from Blogifier.Core/Views. I manually added@addTagHelper *, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.TagHelpers to all of the views to compensate.

3. I updated EmbeddedResources.cs as described by the post directly above.

I realize these aren't ideal changes, but that's was was necessary for me to get the core 2.0 package working on ubuntu. Hopefully you guys can find better workarounds.

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Thanks for doing this, we soon will be ready for testing Linux/PostgreSql functionality and this might help to avoid some major headaches.

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I think i found a workaround for the problem.
Adding the following into the WebApp project file:

<MvcRazorCompileOnPublish>false</MvcRazorCompileOnPublish>

will create a 'refs' folder with all the required assemblies. If I FTP the 'refs' folder to my server, the pages work again. The downside is that the initial load after a dotnet restart will cause the loading to be very slow, although that only affects the initial page load. Subsequent page loads are pretty quick.

I only needed to copy the 'refs' folder, and not the 'Views' folder. After the 'refs' folder is copied, you can delete the code above from the webapp project and publish as before, so long as you leave the 'refs' folder on your server in your web directory.

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Just a quick update on this. This might be related to the switch to Core 2.0 (I've been using the dev branch). I noticed other problems, such as the _ViewImports.cshtml file not really working. I've had to update all @model references in the /View/Account/ and /View/Manage/ folder to use fully qualified names, for example:

@model WebApp.Models.AccountViewModels.LoginViewModel
@inject Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.SignInManager<WebApp.Models.ApplicationUser> SignInManager

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I made some more progress on this. The reason why the _ViewImports wasn't working seems to be because it was conflicting with the _ViewImports from the Blogifier.Core project. Its possible that, since they were both in an identical location, they were conflicting with each other. Removing the _ViewImports.cshtml from Blogifier.Core made my WebApp work correctly.

I'm starting to understand how you guys got the Views from Blogifier.Core to work in the WebApp (and the purpose of the "PrependFileProvider" setting). Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work anymore for me in the latest core 2.0 build on Ubuntu. I'll try to figure out why....

EDIT: By the way, the reason for the conflict of _ViewImports was because I had "PrependFileProvider" set to true. It seems that this caused the EmbeddedFileProvider to execute first, and hence the _ViewImports from Blogifier.Core was probably being used instead of the _ViewImports from my WebApp. I'm not certain that this was happening, but it does seem to explain why the Views from my WebApp weren't working unless I provided the full paths in the Views.

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In attempting to get the Views from Blogifier.Core working, I found another problem, which may again be related to the core 2.0 push.

In EmbeddedResources.cs, the following

if(ex.Message == "Write to non-body 304 response.")

needed to be changed to

if(ex.Message == "Write to non-body 304 response." || ex.Message == "Writing to the response body is invalid for responses with status code 304.")

The error message appears to be different than what was expected.

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I also encountered this problem:
it is broken out after release to Linux,but it is Passed on windows,I think the reason is that Windows and Linux have different paths, do you think?
Exception:
[Error] The view '"/Views/Blogifier/Themes/Standard/Index.cshtml"' was not found. Searched locations: ["/Views/Blogifier/Themes/Standard/Index.cshtml"]

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The current build is tested and working out of the box on Ubuntu, so closing this up.

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