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Asked: 2026-05-29T19:39:36+00:00

Does Sitecore have some sort of hardcoding regarding the website default site? i changed

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Does Sitecore have some sort of hardcoding regarding the website default site? i changed it to be called something else and i just keep getting ‘Length cannot be less than zero`

<sites>
      <site name="shell" virtualFolder="/sitecore/shell" physicalFolder="/sitecore/shell" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" language="en" database="core" domain="sitecore" loginPage="/sitecore/login" content="master" contentStartItem="/Home" enableWorkflow="true" enableAnalytics="false" xmlControlPage="/sitecore/shell/default.aspx" browserTitle="Sitecore" htmlCacheSize="2MB" registryCacheSize="3MB" viewStateCacheSize="200KB" xslCacheSize="5MB" />
      <site name="login" virtualFolder="/sitecore/login" physicalFolder="/sitecore/login" enableAnalytics="false" database="core" domain="sitecore" />
      <site name="admin" virtualFolder="/sitecore/admin" physicalFolder="/sitecore/admin" enableAnalytics="false" enableWorkflow="true" domain="sitecore" loginPage="/sitecore/admin/login.aspx" />
      <site name="service" virtualFolder="/sitecore/service" physicalFolder="/sitecore/service" />
      <site name="modules_shell" virtualFolder="/sitecore modules/shell" physicalFolder="/sitecore modules/shell" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" language="en" database="core" domain="sitecore" content="master" enableAnalytics="false" enableWorkflow="true" />
      <site name="modules_website" virtualFolder="/sitecore modules/web" physicalFolder="/sitecore modules/web" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/home" language="en" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" />
      <site name="foo" virtualFolder="/us" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/foo/us" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" htmlCacheSize="10MB" registryCacheSize="0" viewStateCacheSize="0" xslCacheSize="5MB" filteredItemsCacheSize="2MB" enablePreview="true" enableWebEdit="true" enableDebugger="true" disableClientData="false" />
      <site name="scheduler" enableAnalytics="false" domain="sitecore" />
      <site name="system" enableAnalytics="false" domain="sitecore" />
      <site name="publisher" domain="sitecore" enableAnalytics="false" enableWorkflow="true" />
    </sites>


<cacheSizes>
      <sites>
<foo>
          <html>10MB</html>
          <registry>0</registry>
          <viewState>0</viewState>
          <xsl>5MB</xsl>
        </foo>
      </sites>
    </cacheSizes>

I verified that the size is accessible going to http://localhost/?sc_site=foo . The site should be resolving when doing http://localhost/us, but i just get this meaningless error

any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    From what I remember, Sitecore needs to know how to map your hostname (localhost) to it’s site name (foo). Therefore, you have two options available.

    1) map foo to localhost in your hosts file (and then browse http://foo/us)

    2) add a hostname attribute to the foo site definition in sites config and use the value ‘localhost’

    Hope this helps.

    EDIT:

    Try to take the virtualFolder attribute off:

    <site name="foo" physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content" startItem="/foo/us" database="web" domain="extranet" allowDebug="true" cacheHtml="true" htmlCacheSize="10MB" registryCacheSize="0" viewStateCacheSize="0" xslCacheSize="5MB" filteredItemsCacheSize="2MB" enablePreview="true" enableWebEdit="true" enableDebugger="true" disableClientData="false" />

    Then, with 127.0.0.1 foo in your host file, browse just http://foo.

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