I have created a custom template and deployed it on the central admin.It is being shown under the custom tab and I am able to create sites using it also. but when I sent the same template to be deployed on the production environment, it got deployed from the command prompt. Operation successful and iisreset done. But when trying to create a new site using the template, it is throwing an error saying ::  "The template you have chosen is invalid or cannot be found".

what could be the possible problem?

Hi mate..

if you have a custom .stp file you just need to run STSADM with the addtemplate operation...then IISreset, the template will be available for the whole farm under the custom tab

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Hope that helps..

AJ..

HI,

 THANKS FOR YOUR RESPONSE, ACTUALLY I DID THE SAME THING WHAT YOU MENTIONED, BUT THE PROBLEM IS WHENEVER I'M GOING TO SELECT THE CUSTOM TEMPLATE TO CREATE A SITE IT'S SHOWING SAYING THAT "THE TEMPLATE IS NOT FOUND OR INVALID" ANY CLUES ON THIS?DO WE NEED TO ACTIVATE ANY FEATURES OR ANY CUSTOM SETTINGS?

THANKS IN ADVANCE

ALTHAF HUSSAIN K

I had the same problem no matter what I tried.  I don't know if this relates to your problem but here is what I did:

1)  installed the applicationCore.wsp, Bugdatabase.wsp and the Knowledgedatabase.wsp site templates on environment #1.

2)  Created a site based off of both of the site templates

3)  Created a new "site template" based off of both of these sites.

4)  Copied and deployed these new site templates to another environment and did an IIS reset.  (didn't work because the templates that I based these new site templates were not on the new environment.)

5)  installed the same application templates as in #1 on the environment #2, and created sites based off of the new templates under "Custom" tab.

Hope that help.  The instructions don't give you much information about this.