Hi All, I'm a relative newbie to this. I have downloaded a local version of our website and am running it as localhost (to play with various alterations offline). All the supporting files and images have been downloaded. I am using the most current version of DNN. My challenge is that my photos are not loading. The reason is that the links are coded to the path on the web server, eg /portals/0/filename.ext For the photos to load, I need is for the links to point to /riverfriends/portals/0/filename.ext where "riverfriends" is the folder for the DotNetNuke site, with the path of D:\dotnetnukesites\riverfriends This must be a common challenge. What did I do wrong, and how can I fix it (without having to change the path for every photo) ? Thanks! John

This is a common problem.

You can usually fix things by using relative URLs rather than those with the absolute URL.  But ... you still have to fix all of them.

There is a free module, F3, from Engage Software that can be used to do global search/replace in the HTML modules in a site.  There is a SQL script to do the work here:

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

Unfortunately, neither of these work for DotNetNuke 5.x because the Text/HTML module now includes version number.  I made a simple change to the script to modify the most recent version.  Perhaps we can get that uploaded to the site soon.  But ... it really should create a new version and NOT modify the last one so maybe I should do some additional work ...

Joseph,

Thanks for your advice on search and replace to fix paths on localhost.
I'm using DNN 5, so it looks like I am out of luck for an automated method?

If the Search and Replace script you created for DNN 5 is available, I sure would appreciate getting it.  I didn't quite understand your comment about "new version", but if this will get my images to show, it would be a huge help to me!

Thanks,
John

Joseph,

You mentioned that you might upload your modification to the "Find and Replace SQL" script to work with DNN 5.x.
Did you have a chance to do that, and if so, where should I look for it?

Many Thanks !

John

Engage Software's F3 module (Find and Replace Text/HTML) has been updated to work with DNN 5 - I've tried and it works great on my DNN 5.02 system.

F3 is a much better solution than the sql script.