Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Failed to instantiate file "default.master" from module "DefaultMasterPage"

I ran into this error while trying to create a new Site Definition in SharePoint 2010.  It turns out that the TemplateName you select in your webtemp_custom.xml file:

<Template Name="CustonSiteDefinitions" ID="10000">

Must match the folder in your SiteTemplates directory:

14/TEMPLATE/SiteTemplates/CustomSiteDefinitions

otherwise you'll get the error above.

8 comments:

Unknown said...

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Unknown said...

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Nik Kai said...

thanks for this ! very helpful

Dewey Vozel said...

Thank you.

Sharepoint 2010 said...

Thanx dude !!!

Syed Shoaib Adil said...

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Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

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