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2/2/2007 5:36 PM
 

I tried to export a portal as template. But it seems the template will lost a lots of data of the portal. (Currently I found I lost the data of vender, forum, resposity,survey at least. I have not tested all module yet!!). I just used the module distributed with DNN release only.

Is there any other way to backup a portal rather than total website? (To back total DNN installation just need copy whole dnn directory. Am I right?) My purpose of backup a portal is I want to move my portal form DNN hosting provider A to DNN hosting provider B. Currently, this is only my testing case. So it will not be a big problem. But if I can't find the solution of how to moving a portal. It will be a big problem for me. Can anybody help me?

For another easier case. What should I do if I only need to backup my portal only? Template is surely not enough now.

I guess at least the template and the folder under /Portals should have a backup. But I don't know whether I need other backup also. Does anybody give me some advise?

 
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2/2/2007 5:57 PM
 

Do you have access to the database?  I'd assume not since you don't have host access.

If you had access to the database it is possible that you could move it all over, but it would be a REAL pain in the neck.....


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2/3/2007 1:21 AM
 

Beacuse I test this on my test machine. So I did have thte host permission. I need to login as the host access to export portal template. Did I miss something? For example. I have a testing portal in folder 9. The template's size is 142KB. But at least the portal's folder data's size is 2.42 MB.

I move the template to other DNN installation. The first problem is the portal number of the new DNN installation will not be 9, it may be 11, 15, or some number else. I think this is the reason I got problem now. 

 
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2/5/2007 11:30 AM
 
penghh wrote

I have a DNN installation with many portals. But I want to move one portal to other DNN Installation. For example. I want to move my portal from A hosting provider to B hosting provider. I have only the administrator permission, not the host permission.

How can I do this?  How to backup my portal and move to another host to restore it?

Could anybody help me?

You can backup the entire database via sql (at host a), and copy the dotnetnuke root directory.  Create a new database (at host b) restore the database, and copy the root directory over to host b.  Then set up IIS at host b and point it at your dotnetnuke root.  Once you update the DNS records host b should be up and running.   There are some threads in the forum on how to set a lost host password. You'll need to go into the aspnet_membership table and copy the password and password salt from a know user/password to the host user.  You might need to check the aspnet_users table to make sure of which user is "host".  You could also go into the users table and put a 1 for "IsSuperUser" under your username.  That should grant your username host access.

But as I read further in the thread I see that the issue is more complex, more like what I'm working on right now.

Extracting ONE portal out of one dotnetnuke codebase...and then

Putting that ONE portal into an existing code base that already contains multiple portals..

Anyone seen a forum thread, webpage, or module that addresses how/what the issues are and what needs to be done to make this a reality?

I can see all kinds of issues:

  • users
  • tabids
  • module ids
  • module defs
  • file structure changes from the portal number changing

I tried to export a template including content.  Thats FAR from a perfect solution...

Anyone?

Bent Angle

 

 
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