I'm trying to automate the deployment of our 3.2.2 DNN site at production time, by utilizing the /install folder heavily. Our site is working fairly well in the development environment, and I want to "export" the 1 portal and it's content, thinking the exported files can be imported into the production site at deployment time.

To that end, I exported my portal and content using the DNN 3.2.2 export tools which created two files:

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\dotnetnuke\Portals\_default\MyPortal.Template

C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\dotnetnuke\Portals\_default\MyPortal.Template.resources

I put those two files into the /Install/Portal folder hoping the automated install on a clean environment would recreate all of our portal specific settings and content. However the install process crashes:

/components/ResourceInstaller/ResourceInstaller.vb   line 128.

It tries to load and parse the MyPortal.Template.resources file as if it was expecting it to be an XML file. Maybe these files are not supposed to go into this location? I tried putting them in /Install/Template also, but then resourceinstaller.vb crashes on line 116.

Have I misunderstood the design, or intended use of the Portal Export functionality? The XML and ZIP (.resources) files both look good and ready to go.