Sitefinity create a page before application starts

Question

I'm trying to create a default page for a control which is developed in Sitefinity cms system using the fluent api.

The page creation lies in the installer part of that particular control. I have added the code in installer.cs so that page creation will happen only once after installation. But the system is not allowing to create the page. Due to authentication part before that(my guess). since the page needs to be owned by some username.

So i tried to pass some security info for authentication. Below is the code

UserLoggingReason result = SecurityManager.AuthenticateUser("Default", "username","password", true);

But the above line always throws null reference exception, i dont know what needs to be done in that.

Answer 1

The code should not be in the installer.cs but rather in the module.cs file. You will see that in the Install method there is a call to:

this.InstallBackendPages(initializer);

and there you can create your page like this:

Guid groupPageId = Guid.NewGuid();
        Guid pageId = Guid.NewGuid();

        initializer.Installer
            .CreateModuleGroupPage(groupPageId, "EmptyCustomModule1 group page")
                .PlaceUnder(SiteInitializer.SitefinityNodeId)
                .SetOrdinal(100)
                .LocalizeUsing<AvalonNotificationsResources>()
                .SetTitle("Avalon")
                .SetUrlName("avalon")
                .ShowInNavigation()
                .AddChildPage(pageId, "Test Page")
                    .SetOrdinal(1)
                    .LocalizeUsing<AvalonNotificationsResources>()
                    .SetTitle("Test Page")
                    .SetUrlName("test-page")
                    .AddUserControl("~/UserControls/TestWidget.ascx", "Content")
                    .AddControl(new System.Web.UI.WebControls.Literal()
                     {
                         Text = "<h1 class=\"sfBreadCrumb\">Test Widget</h1>",
                         Mode = System.Web.UI.WebControls.LiteralMode.PassThrough
                     })
                    .ShowInNavigation()
                .Done()
            .Done();

This definitely works for me without supplying any user credentials because the Install method is called only when an Admin activates the module and clicks Install - this means it is already running under Admin privileges.