Plugin causes website to crash (500 error)

[gdaythom]

Describe the bug
Attempting to get Plumber2 working on localhost with my instance of Umbraco 8.13.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Manually add all the relevant files to the Umbraco website filesystem.
2. Create a blank test.lic.
3. Start IIS Express.

Expected behavior
The Umbraco website boots as normal. And the Plumber plugin is accessible via the CMS.

Screenshots
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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• Windows 10
• Umbraco 8.13
• IIS Express

Plumber version
v1.6.8

Licensed version?
Yes. This is a licensed version.

Additional context
We've been talking on Twitter. I changed a .nuget file into a .zip file and then manually moved the relevant files to the website filesystem. Trying to get this running locally first before I deploy to Staging and then Production.

I've tried using a blank test.lic. And a test.lic with the JSON object like your example in the repository. The logs seem to indicate that the licence can't be found.

{"@t":"2021-09-30T08:00:58.3464527Z","@mt":"{FailMessage} ({Duration}ms) [Timing {TimingId}]","@l":"Error","@x":"Umbraco.Core.Exceptions.BootFailedException: Boot failed. ---> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Portable.Licensing, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.\r\n at Plumber.Core.Licensing.Validate(Tuple2 licenseAndKey, ILogger logger)\r\n at Plumber.Web.Components.LicensingComponent.Initialize() in D:\a\1\s\Plumber.Web\Components\LicensingComponent.cs:line 39\r\n at Umbraco.Core.Composing.ComponentCollection.Initialize()\r\n at Umbraco.Core.Runtime.CoreRuntime.Boot(IRegister register, DisposableTimer timer)\r\n --- End of inner exception stack trace ---","FailMessage":"Boot failed.","Duration":8367,"TimingId":"499d513","SourceContext":"Umbraco.Core.Runtime.CoreRuntime","ProcessId":9432,"ProcessName":"iisexpress","ThreadId":1,"AppDomainId":2,"AppDomainAppId":"LMW3SVC6ROOT","MachineName":"MSEDGEWIN10","Log4NetLevel":"ERROR","HttpRequestNumber":1,"HttpRequestId":"32778d92-59a3-4abb-9142-83bdca1c9f21"}
{"@t":"2021-09-30T08:00:58.6492997Z","@mt":"An unhandled exception occurred","@l":"Error","@x":"Umbraco.Core.Exceptions.BootFailedException: Boot failed: Umbraco cannot run. See Umbraco's log file for more details.\n\n-> Umbraco.Core.Exceptions.BootFailedException: Boot failed.\n\n-> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Portable.Licensing, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.\n at Plumber.Core.Licensing.Validate(Tuple2 licenseAndKey, ILogger logger)\r\n at Plumber.Web.Components.LicensingComponent.Initialize() in D:\\a\\1\\s\\Plumber.Web\\Components\\LicensingComponent.cs:line 39\r\n at Umbraco.Core.Composing.ComponentCollection.Initialize()\r\n at Umbraco.Core.Runtime.CoreRuntime.Boot(IRegister register, DisposableTimer timer)\r\n at Umbraco.Core.Exceptions.BootFailedException.Rethrow(BootFailedException bootFailedException)\r\n at System.Web.HttpApplication.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()\r\n at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStepImpl(IExecutionStep step)\r\n at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)","SourceContext":"Umbraco.Web.UmbracoApplicationBase","ProcessId":9432,"ProcessName":"iisexpress","ThreadId":13,"AppDomainId":2,"AppDomainAppId":"LMW3SVC6ROOT","MachineName":"MSEDGEWIN10","Log4NetLevel":"ERROR","HttpRequestNumber":2,"HttpRequestId":"0452d111-d383-42ae-bae3-43ec1240e006"} {"@t":"2021-09-30T08:00:58.8713493Z","@mt":"An unhandled exception occurred","@l":"Error","@x":"Umbraco.Core.Exceptions.BootFailedException: Boot failed: Umbraco cannot run. See Umbraco's log file for more details.\n\n-> Umbraco.Core.Exceptions.BootFailedException: Boot failed.\n\n-> System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Portable.Licensing, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.\n at Plumber.Core.Licensing.Validate(Tuple2 licenseAndKey, ILogger logger)\r\n at Plumber.Web.Components.LicensingComponent.Initialize() in D:\a\1\s\Plumber.Web\Components\LicensingComponent.cs:line 39\r\n at Umbraco.Core.Composing.ComponentCollection.Initialize()\r\n at Umbraco.Core.Runtime.CoreRuntime.Boot(IRegister register, DisposableTimer timer)\r\n at Umbraco.Core.Exceptions.BootFailedException.Rethrow(BootFailedException bootFailedException)\r\n at System.Web.HttpApplication.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()\r\n at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStepImpl(IExecutionStep step)\r\n at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)","SourceContext":"Umbraco.Web.UmbracoApplicationBase","ProcessId":9432,"ProcessName":"iisexpress","ThreadId":11,"AppDomainId":2,"AppDomainAppId":"LMW3SVC6ROOT","MachineName":"MSEDGEWIN10","Log4NetLevel":"ERROR","HttpRequestNumber":3,"HttpRequestId":"cbd7fe25-9a8e-4529-880e-5fb352c13c70"}`

[nathanwoulfe]

Hey @gdaythom, it's definitely a missing file, but not the license - Plumber has a dependency on Portable.Licensing, and won't run without it.

Normally that would be resolved by NuGet, so you'll probably need to do the same as with Plumber - download the NuGet package, change to zip, extract, then add the DLL to /bin.

[gdaythom]

Thank you so much for your support @nathanwoulfe. All is resolved now.

[nathanwoulfe]

Cheers @gdaythom, glad to hear it's working.