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tsopanakos
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12 Jul 2007 12:40 AM  

Restoring a Live Site to a Local Host ,following the steps of the tutorials went ok. For the moment, we only face a problem accessing the child portal

A.

http://localhost/mainportal works ok.

http://localhost/childportal does not work.


Before we move the site we create, for both the main and child portals,  the localhost alias as described in the videos.

B.

On  the Main menu of the Parent Portal, we have a link to the child portal using the url as the link to the child portal (http://Live URL IP/childportal)
 
On the Local Host installation, we edit the specific page (DNN Admin -->Pages) and change the: ( Live URL IP/childportal)  to:  (Localhost/childportal). But every time we click on the link

we have the message: page not found.

Any Ideas ? how to solve this problem ?


Both Live and Local Sites runs on SQL 2005  
leesykes
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12 Jul 2007 10:22 AM  
For the child portal on the localhost installation, did you go into IIS and create a second virtual directory which points to the same DotNetNuke installation as outlined in the video?
Lee Sykes
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tsopanakos
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13 Jul 2007 12:33 PM  

No, I do not do that.

 

From the Video tutorial instructions, I had the impression that the procedure for the second virtual directory has to do with a second (parent ?) portal that "point" to the same physical directory ( www.mysite.com and www.mysite1.com ), and not with the parent portal scenario (www.mysite.com and www.mysite.com/child).

 

 
leesykes
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16 Jul 2007 10:05 AM  
Ah yes, I thought you were using parent portals. - I have not actually tried it with child portals, but as you say it should just work, as long as you have the portal alias url working correctly.

I would reconfirm that you are using the correct portal alias, here's an example of localhost portal urls:

Main Portal:
localhost/dnn_451

Child Portal:
localhost/dnn_451/test

note that the Main portal URL is part of the child portal url, so in your example it would be: http://localhost/mainportal/childportal

Hope this helps,


   

Lee Sykes
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aggiedan97
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12 Jun 2008 2:32 PM  

I have a seperate issue regarding this tutorial:

I followed your tutorial step by step and performed the same steps in unison with a minor exception.  My hosting provider is utilizing SQL Server Express (2000).  My local host version is SQL Server 2005. 

I made the adjustments to comment out the SQL Express connection strings and update the connection strings for SQL server.  The database restore was fine and the IIS virtual Directory is working as well.  I updated permissions on the web folder and I did create a "localhost/..." alias before I started backing up the live site.
 
I receive an error page with the dotnetnuke logo that just states an error has occured.  I have tried several different connection string/credential variations with the same results. 

Have you run in to issues with SQL Express to SQL Server (I understand your tutorial was just the opposite).
 
FYI - My host is Godaddy.com.
leesykes
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16 Jun 2008 3:33 PM  
Hello,

This is not something I have attempted, it is possible to go from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005, but I suspect that you can not go from a SQL 2005 database back to a 2000 database.

You could however purchase a developers version of SQL server 2000 to install on your local computer which will solve the problem. - I think the developers version was something like £40 - from amazon, much cheaper than the full license for SQL server and it has the full functionality as long as you just use it on your local computer.
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jncraig
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17 Jun 2008 7:11 AM  
You might also see if you can connect to this database using SQL Server Management Studio Express. It is a free download from Microsoft. That will let you determine if the database is, in fact, accessible.
Joe Craig
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aggiedan97
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21 Jun 2008 10:04 AM  

Thanks for your replies.

I have resolution!  My localhost server is MS 2003 Standard Ed.  I was able to navigate to the local folder, right-click > properties > Web Sharing tab, web share the folder with Execute Permissions and viola! 

Regarding the IIS Admin console, I had to remove the prior alias reference before I could 'Web Share' the folder.  Using the web sharing feature created an alias in IIS.  However, I then had to return to IIS and configure the .Net version, etc...

Thanks again for this forum and the work your doing.
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