Hi,

I created a new website using the DNN starter kit 4.4.0 and i replaced the database.mdf file with another one(another person had already created this site on their system and i want to port this to my system to that i can develop it further). Rather than trying to sit and work on all the content again, I just replaced the mdf file. All the look and feel is fine but I cant login to the site using host or admin accounts. Is there any problem in replacing a database file...i dont know if anything is corrupted. Is there any other easier way to do this.

Urgent reply needed

Regards

Padma

Hello,

You will also need to copy across the settings from the web.config file of the DNN install that the other person has created.

In particular the settings for:
<add key="InstallationDate" value="12/4/2006" />

<machineKey validationKey="21222DFC544F19D208F7DAEED42628656A83A9DB" decryptionKey="2F0E99DC4E71BFDE1A1AE3269941D0435469F5444E36638E" decryption="3DES" validation="SHA1" />

DNN creates different data for these elements for each installation and it uses this to interpret the passwords.

Thanks,