Hi, everyone,

Guess this is the place for newbies to post. I have a working DNN 4.0.3 on a server, it has custom modules. What I want to do is try to move that to one of the local environment. So I installed DNN 4.0.3 source on my desktop, and it runs fine.

I then restore the backup that I did from the server (database backup file), copy the modules files/folders over + config settins (web.config). Now I have a problem: since the database is identical as the server's copy, I can't login even using server's login.

I do have access to the database, and I can see that password is encrypt with the table: aspnet_membership, so I created a new user, copy and paste the encrypt password onto host (with passwordsalt as well), and can't login with host (nor admin). So I try to change my new created user to be a superuser (users, isSuperUser = True), then i can't login with that account.

Does anyone has experience something like this? or if you can provide me a way that I can hack? =P thank you!

2 things,

1) Did you copy the Machine Key from the previous web.config to the web.config of the machine you moved to? That should handle the password encryption problem.

2) When you need to move content from one DNN environment to another it is best to use the Import and Export functions. You can export all HTML content created with the standard HTML module. For your custom modules see:

IPortable: Easily export content from your module to deploy on your production server