Hi,

I need your help here for transfering my web site to another server...  I copied all my site files to my new server, I've backup my database and restored it to the new server.  After I've made the modification to the webconfig file.  After that, when I try my temporary address of my new server, I'm redirected to my old server address !!!

Trying to solve my problem, I did log in as the host on my portal and checked under host menu, portals.  The portal address that is indicated is my old address on my old server.... should I change this adress to my new server address before backing up the database or before copying the site files ?  Is this the answer to the redirection to my old server ?

thanks for your help

I don't think the fix is just that simple.  I had a "similar" issue, but same server.  I actually changed the alias to one of the portals on my development server and deleted the old alias... all "auto-generated" links work great, but any of the links in the HTML editor still pointed to the old alias under which they were created (using the FCKEditor provider).  In other words, I may have had a link that referenced http://www.someoldalias.com/somepages/tabid/etc that, upon deleting the old alias will obviously come up "page cannot be displayed".  The problem is that the new alias doesn't automatically propagate over all of the "static" links.

What I ended up doing was writing a little SQL script to modify the HtmlText table en masse for this specific portal and replace all instances of "someoldalias" with "somenewalias".  The caveat to this is that for my script to work, none of the HtmlEditor areas could have more than 8000 characters (including source HTML), otherwise it would have suffered data loss.  Luckily, my biggest one was only 5k characters.  My script:

SELECT    
                dbo.HtmlText.ModuleID,
                dbo.HtmlText.DesktopHtml,
                dbo.HtmlText.DesktopSummary,
                dbo.HtmlText.CreatedByUser,
                dbo.HtmlText.CreatedDate,
    len(convert(varchar(8000), desktophtml)) as charcount
FROM        
                dbo.HtmlText INNER JOIN
                dbo.Modules ON dbo.HtmlText.ModuleID = dbo.Modules.ModuleID
WHERE    
                (dbo.Modules.PortalID = 5)
                AND (dbo.HtmlText.DesktopHtml LIKE '%foober.homeip.net%')
 
-- UPDATE script to replace all the old instances with new instance

UPDATE
                dbo.HtmlText
SET
                DesktopHtml = REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar(8000), DesktopHtml), CONVERT(varchar(8000),'foober.homeip.net'), CONVERT(varchar(8000),'sleepingbag.homeip.net'))
FROM
                dbo.HtmlText INNER JOIN dbo.Modules 
                ON dbo.HtmlText.ModuleID = dbo.Modules.ModuleID
WHERE
                (dbo.Modules.PortalID = 5)
                AND (dbo.HtmlText.DesktopHtml LIKE '%foober.homeip.net%')

What would be nice is if changing the alias could go change all the Html areas and remove the old alias and replace with new alias... but in the meantime, at least a script can do it.

-- Fooberichu