We currenty run our DNN 5.2 Website under an IP Provider.

I would ike to be able to export a copy of the website and Import it to my PC so that I can rework a lot of the pages, and then when I have updated whatever pages need to be redone, copy the content of any changed pages back to  our Hosted DNN website.

I tried creating a directory on my PC with the correct permissions, and then just FTP-ing the entire site down to my PC but that doesn't work when I try to start it up.

Is there any way to do this that will work?

Thanks,

Bryan.

Hi Sebastian,

I must be doing something wrong...I am trying to export a copy of the website from my web hosting company to my local PC, directory D:\websites\WEBSITENAME

I added the Alias, localhost/WEBSITENAME to the website settings.

I FTP'd the entire file structure over to my PC.

I was not sure about the "database.mdf" which you mentioned.

I checked the host file, it had a couple of entries;
127.0.0.1 localhost:

::1 localhost

The directory had the correct security setting, NETWORK SERVICE

I tried to start up the website, using http://localhost/WEBSITENAME

It seems like it was trying to run an install, as the URL switched to; http://localhost/WEBSITENAME/Install/...

Then it got a timeout error.

Trying to send it to http://localhost/WEBSITENAME/Default.... it got a different error;

Server Error in '/WEBSITENAME' Application.

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Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Any ideas where I go from here?

Thanks,

Bryan.