Fixing page layout URLs after importing a publishing site in SharePoint

Sometimes when you importing a publishing site in sharepoint, you may failing to copy some pages. If you looked at the page in the pages library the name of the layout was correct, but the link pointed to a different site(URL was pointing to the site from which I originally imported the site, but only some pages were broken). This problem may generate error "Value does not fall within the expected range".

Fixing the PageLayout URLs
A console application which looked at each of the pages and modified the link to the layout.
Code To do this action is:

private static void FixPages(SPWeb oWeb)
{
try
{
if (!PublishingWeb.IsPublishingWeb(oWeb)) return;
PublishingWeb pw = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(oWeb);
SPListItemCollection oList = pw.PagesList.Items;
string sSiteUrl = oWeb.Site.Url;
foreach (SPListItem oPageItem in oList)
{
string s = (string)oPageItem[FieldId.PageLayout];
if (!s.StartsWith(sSiteUrl))
{
Console.WriteLine("Fixing " + oPageItem.Title + " (" + oPageItem.Url + ")");
oPageItem[FieldId.PageLayout] = sSiteUrl + s.Substring(s.IndexOf("/", 9));
oPageItem.SystemUpdate();
}
}
foreach (SPWeb oSubWeb in oWeb.Webs)
{
Console.WriteLine("Processing " + oSubWeb.Title + "...");
FixPages(oSubWeb);
oSubWeb.Dispose();
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Console.WriteLine("Layout fix failed at site: " + oWeb.Title);
Console.WriteLine(ex);
}
}

Running this application against the development site found a number of pages where the layout was broken and fixed up the link. Running it for a second time confirmed all the layout URLs were fixed.

MOSS Page Setting Error - Value does not fall within the expected range

We are getting error “Value does not fall within the expected range” when try to change the “Page Setting” in MOSS 2007. Yes, again same error message as in here (In fact, this error occurs is various scenarios). This error only happens when you copy an aspx page using SharePoint designer from one server to another severs (development server to production server). Once you try to edit the Page Setting, the error will occurs. We did some googling around but no luck. Some sites mention that the page is link to the old Page Layout’s URL and we are not able to change it since we cannot access the page setting. But, there are a workaround where you can solve it! Here are the steps:

1. You cannot copy and paste the aspx page using SharePoint designer. First, export the aspx page using SharePoint designer to a physical file.
2. Open the aspx page with notepad and search on the “mso:PublishingPageLayout”. You will notice your development portal URL is there.
   http://xxxdevelopmenturl/_catalogs/masterpage/BlankWebPartPage.aspx, Blank Web Part Page
3. Replace your development URL (xxxdevelopmenturl) to the production URL and save it.
4. Open your production site with SharePoint Designer and import the modified aspx page.

That’s all. You should able to change the page setting without any error. Do note that if you are using reporting services in the aspx page, you can replace all the report’s URLs too. In that case, you do not need to reconfigure all the web parts again. This saves us a lot of effort since our aspx page contains more than 25 web parts. It will take us hours to reconfigure the report URL and parameters.