I have restored my DB and copied my DNN site to my local and it all seems good, but when I navigate the the http://localhost/mysite I get immediately redirected back to the live site and my URL changes to http://www.mysite.com/

Any ideas what would cause this?

You need to change portalalias in your localhost database.   How to backup a live hosted DotNetNuke website and restore it to a localhost installation shows you how to do this.

If you have SQL Server Management Studio Express, you can connect to the database and change it that way.

I did that. I have discovered that the issue appears to be tied to the Friendly URLs provider from Ventrian. When I disable the "HumanFriendly" attribute, the site works as expected with localhost.

Thanks

Thanks for the info, that's interesting to know,

Cheers,

Thanks, it also helps me !!!
But it is a pity, then I can not do all my test, because sometimes, new modules does not work with Friendly URL, and I am obliged to do the test on the prod site... Any idea ???

DV

Hello

Using windows explorer to navigate to c:\inetpub\wwwroot, then right click and select "New" -> "Folder" and create a folder with the same name as your existing DNN installation. (If you installed to a different location you may simply navigate to that path and substitute it for any further path references)

If I choose for example mydnn as a folder, and I connect to http://localhost/mydnn, my website is showing, excepted that ALL my images are not shown. I need to edit each module, to find the correct path for the images. And the path is modified from:
/Portals/0/images/myimage.gif to
/mydnn/Portals/0/images/myimage.gif

WHY ? Where is my mistake ???
I tried to re-do the tutorial 5 times, without success....
I have found that in HOST SETTINGS, relative paths is not null compared to my live website. It is set to \mydnn
How could I modify this please ???

I give up.
DV

Try removing the leading /mydnn from the URL.

It does not work...
I have strictly followed what is written in the tutorial, but without success for the images...
Any other idea ???


DV
PS: I have heard on other forums that this is a well known problem of DNN... In such case, I do not understand the interest of having a local installation synchronised with a live one... And I do not understand the purpose of the latest Issue26...

Perhaps I should have said something in the videos in issue 26. - I assumed that you have already viewed the tutorials from issue 22 and understood the issue with image urls. - The solution when transferring local to live and vice versa for image urls is in this tutorial:

Find and Replace SQL queries for DotNetNuke
(To fix problems after transferring a localhost database to a live website and other useful functions)
(3 videos – 25mins)

I think I will add a note to the tutorial page for the synchronization tutorial just to avoid future confusion of image URLs.

Thanks,

Lee

Mmmm, I never see this tutorial. VERY INTERESTING.
Thanks so much,
DV
PS: For information, the problem with image is not mentionned in ISSUE22... You should add a note ??

On the tutorial How to transfer a localhost DotNetNuke installation to a live website, it states:

"Once you have watched this video tutorial, make sure you follow this tutorial: Find and Replace SQL queries for DotNetNuke (To fix any image URL problems after transferring a localhost database to a live site and other useful functions)"

Perhaps I need to put a highlight box around it.

Ok, Sorry... But in general, I download the video, I do not go back to the HTML page...

DV