hi, my name is sabine, and im something like a newbie in the dotnetnukeworld. i made a nuke website on a virtual pc and now i wanted to synchronize with another server, just to test it. if it works, i planned to synchronize with the real webserver. but it does not work. i read a lot of documentation and tried really hard to work it out. but it seems as you have to copy a lot of things from a to b and check if in one table is this and there is that.

i did the following:

at first i installed a new portal on the destination server, set all permissions and everything -> it works without any problem.

then i installed redgate on my own server and synchronized my own website database with the destination server database. the only difference between the two databases is the username and the password and the name of the database. my own database is called nuke, the destination database is called liftoff. yeah and the two owner have different names and passwords.

the synchronisation worked, i could see the data from my own database on the destination database (and the owner was set like it should be)  BUT: when i tried to open the website from destination server (with correct address: testpc/testportal) he gave me a redirection error. "the adress you are calling is redirecting your request that it never can be completed".

well i checked in the database of the destination server the table portal alias, there is the right adress. erikvb (he wrote an article about moving database from a to b) told me that i should copy some files (mostly dlls in the bin folder) but i think thats a little bit complicated. everytime when i synchronize after a update i should compare the dlls and copy them around? and i dont think that i would have the permission on the webserver to play around with dlls.

isnt there a much easier way? what have i done wrong? can you please help me?

thank you!

kind regards,

sabine kreuzer