Ram@4cepower:

I'm also trying to display  tables of records as public Sites pages, starting with the most basic view and adding complexity over time.

I'm stuck. So far I've gotten two VF pages to work as Public Sites, every other page that I've attempted to link to a sSte generates an Authorization Required page.

For example, http://quickops.force.com/newperson generates an Authorization Required page.

But if I build out a new page with just the default /apex/page "Congratulations. This is your new Page.." then it displays correctly, see: http://quickops.force.com/hello

So I assume I am doing something bad in the VisualForce that is causing the need for authentication.

I have only one line of VF in each of the Sites pages, each is a variation on this for various objects: <apex:page showHeader="false" action="{!URLFOR($Action.Business__c.List, $ObjectType.Business__c)}"/>

Any help greatly appreciated.   Thank you

Michael,

Indeed - it pops up the Authorization Required page when it encounters errors in Apex among other things. You can figure out the issue a couple of ways.

1. Try running your VF page while logged in into SF by going to something like https://na9.salesforce.com/apex/VF1 (where VF1 is your page). Any errors - such as trying to access a field without querying it in SOQL etc will show up more explicitly when running this way.

2. Add debug to the guest user for your site. So if your site is named quickops, you'll have a guest user named  something like "quick ops Guest user". Set debug monitoring on and then try your requests. The error should show up in the logs.

Hope that helps.

Best,

Ram

Thank you for your very quick response.

The pages work fine as Visualforce pages, viewed with the ..../apex/pagename technique.

I tried to find a way to enable debugging for guest users and was ultimately told by Premier+ support techs (two of them) yesterday that debugging is not possible on Guest profiles.  When I attempt to enable debugging, the only profiles that are available to me for debugging are those of logged in users, either our Internal Users or Customer Portal but not Guests.

Do you know how exactly to enable debugging for guest users, or can you point me to a workbook or guide?  

As it is now, if I view the pages in Administrator mode, I see this error message at teh bottom of the page;  "Page not allowed for profile:/businesses/a0T/I:  but I've checked 100 times and the page IS allowed in that Profile.

Thanks very much for your help, it's greatly appreciated.

Michael

Michael,

When you go into Admin Setup | Monitoring | Debug Logs | New  - You should see a profile such as "<Site Name> Site Guest User" where <Site Name> is a placeholder for your actual site name. Just try a wild card search such as *Guest* or just put the full guest user name in such as "MySite Site Guest User". That should find it and you should be able to debug that user.

Best,

Ram

Michael,

That is puzzling. Which SF edition are you on? It should be there for Enterprise Edition and Unlimited for sure. Also are you logged on as a Sys Admin?

Ram

Enterprise, in our Production org.

I suspect there may have been a change in that they show error messages for guests at the bottom of the page rather than in a remote log.  Keep reading....

I just tried adding a new page that is more complex than the Hello World page, but without using the code I used for the other pages, and got the same Auth Required error page.

I suspect it has something to do with this stuff that's going on in the URL:  http://quickops.force.com/newtest/a0U/l?retURL=%2Fnewtest%2Fapex%2FmediaList

which was generated by trying to visit:  http://quickops.force.com/newtest from the Site Detail page.  

The error is, again, 'Page not allowed for profile:/newtest/a0U/I'

newtest is the name of the Site and mediaList is the default VF page.

I also suspect this is tied in to my confusion about how to add "pages" to Sites.  My conversation with SF Developer Support yesterday resulted in my understanding that a force.com Site can actually only have one page associated with it, and that I need to create a new Site for every page i want to make public.  We even went so far as to discuss using AJAX as a workaround so that we wouldn't run out of pages when we hit our limit of 25 sites.

Further reading suggests that this is NOT true, but for the life of me I cannot understand what the public URL would be for the additional VF pages that I have made available via the declarative steps. Is there something about 

Thanks for sticking with me on this!

Michael,

You can have a lot of pages on a single site - I'm sure there is a limit but not one that you'd encounter anytime soon. Make sure to go into Develop | Sites | Click on your site name | Click Edit  on Site VisualForce Pages.

You can then add your page in for the site. This will allow it to be seen by guest users hitting that site.

Ram

I understand the process of enabling pages, if you see my original post, I am able to create and make basic VF hello world pages publicly available as the default page on a Site.

The problems are that

1. anything other than the most basic VF and APEX seems to be making the page requaire authorization.

2. I do not understand how to provide a link on an external website to a page that is not the default page for a specific force.com Site.  I tried quickops.force.com/Sites_Name/page_name but was told yesterday that is not possible, and that's what led to the whole conversation about the limit of only being able to have 25 single-paged force.com Sites under an Enterprise license, which seemed ricidulous but which they confirmed with someone else in tech support.

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