{"id":583,"date":"2008-07-01T17:40:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T22:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/?p=583"},"modified":"2015-02-15T08:31:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T13:31:57","slug":"comsingle-digit-is-a-reserved-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/2008\/07\/01\/comsingle-digit-is-a-reserved-word\/","title":{"rendered":"com[single digit] is a reserved word"},"content":{"rendered":"

In either WSS or MOSS, If you name a site prefixed with the word “com” following a single digit – for example com1,com2…com9 , SharePoint UI won’t throw a validation error, but upon browsing to the site , you will get the following nasty errors. Okay , why do I need to call a site prefixed with “com”? In our CRM product , we have this notion called “Communities”, self-standing collab sites which are derived from within CRM UI. While testing site provisioning code and the underlying site definition and for simplicity , we named the site “com1” and observed this behavior.
\n Action<\/strong>: Create a site collection or subsite and give it this title and url : com1 or com2 or com3………or com0.
\n Template<\/strong>: Whatever
\n Errors<\/strong>:”An unexpected error has occurred” [Screenshot<\/a>]
\n Or
\n “The resource cannot be found” [Screenshot<\/a>]
\n Or
\n A blank page is shown as default.aspx<\/p>\n

While trying com10 , we got “The page has encountered a critical error” once [Screenshot<\/a>] , but after doing IISRESET we never got that error message again. It was just a hiccup <\/a>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

All the other sites named with com[Double digits] (com01~com09) seem to be working just fine.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\"TwodigitsAreOkay\"<\/a><\/div>\n

\n It turned out that Com1 through com9 are kind of reserved words , referring to the serial ports. You can\u2019t create a file in the file system called com1 either.
\n (Thanks to Todd Klindt<\/a> for pointing me at this one)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In either WSS or MOSS, If you name a site prefixed with the word “com” following a single digit – for example com1,com2…com9 , SharePoint UI won’t throw a validation error, but upon browsing to the site , you will get the following nasty errors. Okay , why do I need to call a site […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moss-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1939,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/1939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.devhorizon.com\/reza\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}