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1/10/2008 1:20 AM
 
Raddock

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I need some help pretty quickly. I've paid a company $3k to skin a .netnuke site. They claimed they were this big time know it all company, turns out they took the money and farmed it out to a place in mexico that didn't know how to completely skin the site. We've been updating the database in anticipation of having the site go live as soon as it's "fixed". Then the company we contracted became more and more belligerent until they are no longer taking our phone calls and e-mails. The last contact we have with them was that they are removing the files off their server by Friday the 11th, and that we have everything we need by copying those files off. Here's my questions. I've downloaded all the files off the web server, and purchased hosting with godaddy. If I upload them to godaddy will the site work, or will I be missing the database? Is there any configuration to do on the new server? Do I have the actual database file and how do I get that if not? Do I have the skinning files we paid for by downloading what is on the webserver? Thanks for any help! VERY appreciated.
 
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1/10/2008 1:42 AM
 
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Check a few things

For the database look in the app_data folder, is there a file in there? Is it larger than 1216kb? If it is you probably have a copy of your database, if it is 1216 or somewhere close you might just have the "clean" database that comes with DNN.

For your skin files check out the portals/_default/skins/ folder to see if you can find anything from the company, or try /portals/0/skins/

If you have the DB you'll need to restore it somewhere, I'm not sure you can do that using GoDaddy, as their hosting is fairly limited from my experiences with them.

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1/10/2008 1:43 AM
 
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one more thing, it's DotNetnuke, not .netnuke or .net nuke.

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1/10/2008 1:51 AM
 
Raddock

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Thanks for the quick response. The DB file in that folder is called Database.mdf and it's 1,245,184 bytes. Also it appears the skin files are in the skins folder. I see the one for our website. I know very little about this stuff, and even less about Dotnetnuke. If I am missing the db file, how else might I go about finding it. Would it be listed in a config file or something?
 
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1/10/2008 2:00 AM
 
Armand Datema


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HI

As Chris said, but if you dont have acces to the server anymore but the url is public and the skin is showing I can help you there.

I build a tool that will take any dnn site and save back the original skin to disk, so i could help you to try and get most if it back.

PS to all: no need asking me for this tool, I will not sell because it makes it very easy for people to rip skins from others and that is not what it was build for, it was build for circumstances like these

Just gimme the url and i will see what I can do

 

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