I developed a DNN site on my desktop.  The DB was created on our development DB server, so once the web.config was set up, it shouldn't need to be changed until we go to production. 

I tried migrating by doing a publish in VS2008, I have also simply moved the entire contents of the DotNetNuke directory from my machine to the Web server.  Neither have resulted in a site I can get to.

Remoting to the server, I can access the site using localhost/dotnetnuke/website, or localhost/dotnetnuke_2.

From IE on my desktop, I type in the URL for the site in IE.  IE thinks for a bit then transfers me back to my desktop's localhost!!!

I think is has something to do with the portalAlias.  PortalAliasID 1 was uneditable (from DNN) and had HTTPAlias of 'localhost/DotNetNuke/website'.   I tried adding several additional entries, but was always transfered back to my desktop.

When I removed the localhost row in the portalAlias table using SQL mgt studio, my desktop simply says page cannot be found.  I also can't get to the the site when remoting to the server and using localhost.

Lots of searching has failed to explain how this alias table works, and why I might be having this problem.  It might be simple for a Web person, but I am coming at this from the windows app world.

Little help?