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3/11/2010 4:51 PM
 
Yener Adal


www.intuitiveit.com.au
Joined: 1/9/2005
Posts: 32

OK there seems to be a fair bit of confusion on how to do this.

Here are the steps I take when I want to make another (dev) copy of my live site on a different server.

I'm sure there is more than one way to do it but this how I do it.

Here are the names of servers and services I'll use in the explanation:

wserverlive - live production webserver
wserverdev - dev webserver
sqlserverlive - live db server
iislive - live IIS service
iisdev - dev IIS service
live.com - live portal alias (url)
dev.com - dev portal alias (url)

  1. Go into host > site settings for live.com and add dev.com to the list of portal aliais
  2. go sqlserverlive and make a backup of dotnetnuke database
  3. Now restore the backup you made in step 2 as a different database name - e.g. DotnetnukeDev. At this point you should have a complete file and sql copy of your production system on the dev side.  Now to make it accessible.
  4. go to iislive and copy the dotnetnuke folder to iisdev
  5. Create a new website in iisdev pointing to dotnetnuke folders stored on wserverdev.  Ensure the host headers contain the url dev.com
  6. Setup your dns (or hosts files) so that dev.com points to the IP address of wserverdev.  This will ensure that when you browse to dev.com it will go to the dev server setup
  7. Change the web.config on wserverdev so it points to the db DotNetNukeDev.  Change sql user/role permissions as required.
     

That should be it.  When you browse to dev.com you will go to dev environment (which happens to be a copy of your live environment.  No need to change portal IDs!

I hope this post makes sense and doesn't add more confusion.  Let me know if I've missed a step

regards

 

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Intuitive IT - Dotnetnuke developers in Melbourne Australia
 
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3/16/2010 1:48 PM
 
mark richardson

Joined: 7/30/2007
Posts: 501

Hi,
thanks for the (almost) idiot proof steps.

However, I'm not clear on steps 5 and 6 above? - I can't enter a a dev url.com becasue i want it to straight off the dev server IP address if possible.

thanks, mark.
 
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3/17/2010 1:54 PM
 
mark richardson

Joined: 7/30/2007
Posts: 501
Yen Adal wrote:
Hi there, These are the steps I've taken to create a Dev site. 1. On the production site, add a portal alias for your dev site. (e.g. http://dev.site.com) 2. All the steps you outlined above 3. On the production site, remove the dev portal alias That should be it. If you created a whole new parent portal then the contents of the original site doesn't move to the new portal. Different portalID and all hope that helps regards
 

Maybe a daft question, but i'm not sure why i have to ' remove the dev portal alias ' (after step 3)? Will it not work until this is done?
 
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3/18/2010 10:59 AM
 
mark richardson

Joined: 7/30/2007
Posts: 501

First time i tried the above the following happened:

 one of my portals picked up the wrong skin and even when i went to host settings >> and changed it back to the original skin it still showed the skin from the other portal.
It was as though the original skin (which was only DNN blue default skin) was corrupted or missing becasue it kept crashing when trying to put back in place. I had created a new database for the development server to connect to and copied all the files on to the development server, so seems a bit strange that when i accessed the development server to check it all worked it affected the live site?

Could it be the portal alias? - is this why i have to remove from the new portal alias initially inputted on the live portal (before backing up and restoring db) from the live site before accessing the dev site?
 
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4/25/2011 3:57 PM
 
Jodi Houston


Joined: 8/3/2010
Posts: 6
I am attempting to do this, clone a site onto my development machine, however, the live site is godaddy hosted, and though I have access to the Admin page, I do not seem to have access to (can't find anywhere), the "Host Settings" or "Portal Page".

I do have access to the FTP of the live site, and a database admin tool.  So my first attempt was to copy all the content, which I simply copied into my C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mynewsite\ folder.  After doing this, http://localhost/mynewsite DOES bring up the page content, but I can't log into it there, it's not yet tied to the database, which I have restored into my SQL Express, I'm just a newbie here in DNN and not sure how to point the new site to the restored db.

Again, I know this isn't quite the right way to do it, but what can I do without the "Host" menu?

Thank you!
 
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