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11/22/2007 10:44 AM
 

Hello Everybody,

I've seen a few posts on this matters, but none of them were able to help me overcome my problem.

I've recently deployed a dotnetnuke system which is currently in production and serving users. What I'm trying to do now, is create an identical copy of that environment on my local computer, so I can develop and test things on it without interfering with the production environment.

The steps I've taken to do so are the following:

  • Backup the MS SQL server and restore it on my local SQL Express server
  • Zip the dotnetnuke site root, download it, and unzip it into a folder on my local machine
  • add the new folder as a virtual directory within IIS
  • edit the web.config file at that directory and modify the connection string for the new database
  • edit the PortailAlias table on the database: delete the old alias and set the new one to localhost/dnnprod (as set in IIS)

After all this, when i try to enter the new DNN site on my computer, i get a error from the browser ("Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" at IE7, "The connection was interrupted" at Firefox)

This is what the connection attempts look like at the IIS logs:


#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.1
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2007-11-22 15:24:33
#Fields: time c-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem sc-status
15:24:33 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/ 302
15:24:33 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/Default.aspx 302
15:25:08 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/ 302
15:25:08 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/Default.aspx 302
15:27:13 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/ 302
15:27:13 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/Default.aspx 302
15:29:51 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/ 302
15:29:51 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/Default.aspx 302
15:29:54 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/ 302
15:29:54 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/Default.aspx 302
15:29:57 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/ 302
15:29:57 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnProd/Default.aspx 302
15:38:45 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnprod/ 302
15:38:45 127.0.0.1 GET /dnnprod/Default.aspx 302


 


Thanks in advance to everyone.

 

 
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11/23/2007 5:20 AM
 

your steps seem correct. Did you modify portal alias before or after you attempted to access the site? If you did that after, then you need to restart the site, because the portal aliasses are cached


Erik van Ballegoij, Former DNN Corp. Employee and DNN Expert

DNN Blog | Twitter: @erikvb | LinkedIn: Erik van Ballegoij on LinkedIn

 
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11/23/2007 11:47 AM
 

Hi,

Did you check your permissions on the physical folder (not virtual folder) that you unzipped your site to ?

Depending on IIS version you need to authorise either ASPNET or NETWORK on your folder.

Another issue I had was to make sure that the portalalias for my local site was first in the queue otherwise it would keep going to the live site.

I've just done this on a site and it does take a bit of jiggling before everything works ?!?

pete

 
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11/24/2007 11:53 AM
 

Peter Chapman wrote

Another issue I had was to make sure that the portalalias for my local site was first in the queue otherwise it would keep going to the live site.

I'm sure that was a caching issue of some sort, dnn checks all aliases, and if one fits, that is used. The order is not important


Erik van Ballegoij, Former DNN Corp. Employee and DNN Expert

DNN Blog | Twitter: @erikvb | LinkedIn: Erik van Ballegoij on LinkedIn

 
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11/25/2007 5:35 AM
 

Hi.

I have gave the ASPNET user permissions to the folder, and I have restarted IIS.

Any other ideas will be appreciated :)

 
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