G'day all,

Hows it going? All well I hope.

Firstly, thanks for a wonderful product. I have had considerable experience with MS CMS but DNN beats it hands down. Its the customisation and the varied variety that has impressed me.

So, I decided to develop a charitable website for a local community.

downloaded and installed 4.6.2. Now I have managed to get a website up and running on my server at home. And decided to upload the entire website with its database onto the host server.

In theory,  would you expect a website to behave erractically? perhaps no.? 

So I uploaded the entired root folder with the database onto my host server. I did however change the details of the hostaddress id in PortalAliasID table. Now, expected the website to run. However, I do get an error. Searching for this error has not lead to any resolution. As there are many seekers to the same problem but none have found a solution.

I am refering to the 'type initializer for 'DotNetNuke.Data.DataProvider' threw an exception.'

I am not sure why am I seeing this? checked the connection strings, all is fine, ie I can connect to the DB using Client tools.

So the billion dollar question is "Is there a recommended path in migrating data from Dev into Production"

And has anyone faced the same problem before and what have you done to resolve this crisis?

Thanks very much for your help..

cheers

shekhar

Hi,

I stand under correction here, so If I'm talking utter bull please say so :)

First off, I would upgrade to 4.7.0 cause 4.6.2 is a bit dodgey (At least with my Portal I found it a bit dodgey)

Secondly, I've noticed that in my personal experience, that when it comes to setting up a Portal for the first time in a new environment, a lot of error messages indicates that there is an issue with sql or your sql connection string, when it's actually folder permissions and IIS permissions that is causing the problems, so I suggest that if you are confident that there is nothing wrong with your connection string, try looking at permission settings instead.

Hope this helps.

I have given permissions to aspnet and network service. so it may not be the permissions at all..

so tell me is 4.7 stable at all?

cheers

shekhar