Hi everyone,
I have been running a DotNetNuke site at GoDaddy for several months now. Yesterday, I attempted to upgrade it, and ran into a number of problems. Before I did the upgrade, I backed up the database into a .bak file and copied the entire DNN directory to my computer. When I restored the database using GoDaddy's tools, something went wrong, and I wasn't able to log in to their database manager. I called them for support, and the guy basically said that he was escalating the issue. Apparently, they just added the backup/restore feature a few weeks ago, so it probably hasn't been throughly tested. So, the site is down.
Since I have a copy of the database and the DNN directory locally, this morning I attempted to recreate the site locally. I was able to load all of the database information into an SQL 2000 server (which is the GoDaddy server uses), and it appears that all of the data is intact. I ran into some problems initially with the connection string, but I eventually got a connection string to work in my web.config file. When I got that to work, the site began to refer me to the domain URL (i.e. it redirected me to my production dot net nuke that is currently down). I searched in a couple tables, notably dbo_PortalAlias and dbo_HostSettings, and tried to change the HostURL or alises to the local IP address, or 127.0.0.1, or localhost, but now the problem is that firefox will give this error:
The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
- This problem can somtimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.
Anyway, now that I have explained my situation, does anyone have any advice or suggestions regarding this situation? Specifically, has anyone attempted something similar with GoDaddy and DNN, or does anyone know what the problem is when I try to recreate the system on my local machine?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Jason Pell