Error when setting default page in a multisite sitecore extranet

Question

I have a multisite configuration, and one of the sites is a secure extranet

Not logged users (anonymous) will be redirected to the login page
the default page is home

So my configuration reads like this

<site name="aodextranet" hostName="preprod.aodextranet.org" virtualFolder="/" 
      physicalFolder="/" rootPath="/sitecore/content/Sites/Extranet" 
      startItem="/Home" 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" loginPage="/login.aspx" />

if I go to mysite/home I'm redirected to the login page as expected
but if I only write mysite without the explicit reference to the home page the sites throws an error: no layout page.

If /home is the start item in the configuration file, I should go to home and then redirected to the login page. I've tried upper and lower case without success

This is a screen cast http://screencast.com/t/aiF0BNk4lWr

Any help would be really appreciated

You say you have a multi-site configuration, but there is only one site configuration posted. The problem might be caused by another site configuration. Could you share those too (only the non-default ones)? — Ruud van Falier

Martijn van der Put Martijn van der Put · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-15T21:07:02

The sitecore item /sitecore/content/Sites/Extranet/Home is the item that is shown when you navigate in the browser to preprod.aodextranet.org. This item should have a layout and sublayouts/renderings added to the presentation tab. Looking at your configuration it seems that you have misconfigured your site-definition or did not add the presentation elements to the item /extranet/home.

Error when setting default page in a multisite sitecore extranet

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