No physical template file was found for templateĀ X

This post shows you how to fix the errorĀ No physical template file was found for template X. There is an animated which shows you how to fix it.

Here is why it happens and how you can fix it?

This error usually happens when you publish a site and forget to include some of the files in the project.

To fix it, just go into Visual Studio and include the missing files.

See the below animation for how to do this:

Paul Seal

Umbraco MVP and .NET Web Developer from Derby (UK) who specialises in building Content Management System (CMS) websites using MVC with Umbraco as a framework. Paul is passionate about web development and programming as a whole. Apart from when he's with his wife and son, if he's not writing code, he's thinking about it or listening to a podcast about it.

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