I have been  wrestling with establishing a localhost copy of my live site.  I've fought through a number of problems working with IIS 7.5 under Windows 7 Pro thanks to much help and advice from contributors on this forum.  I'm close to success (I  think).

Now when I attempt to browse to the restored site (localhost/BIUSABkUp) I'm getting a generic DotNetNuke Community page with the message "This site is currently Unavailable.  Please check back later."

I'm sure how to proceed with trouble shooting this problem.  Are there any suggestions?  Any logs I can examine?  Settings I should check?

Thanls

Al.

That would be the expected behavior if DotNetNuke is unable to connect to it's database. Double check that you can connect to the database using a tool such as MS Sql Server Management Studio and the same server, database name, and user credentials that are being used in your modified connection strings (2) in the site's web.config.

If that does not help you spot the problem, please describe the procedure used to migrate the database from production to localhost as well as posting to this thread the <connectionStrings> and <appSettings> sections from web.config. Please replace any database username and password information with xxxx when posting this information.

I'm glad you solved that issue, Al. It's easy to overlook the small details and helps to have a second pair of eyes or a checklist to find the error.

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