Hi all,

I have a DNN site that is public and I want to make a local copy of it and run it locally. Here is the workflow I tried to use:

0) Make public site have an alias of "ameliaislandroastscom" (which I will use as the name of my Virtual directory on the local machine)

1) Make backup of public DB, and download to my local computer

2) Copy all files from public webpage to local machine

3) Use SQL2005 Express to restore the downloaded.bak file

4) make sure I have a username / pwd with appropriate access

5) Create new Virtual Directory in IIS pointing to the downloaded files. , ensure correct version of asp.net dnt user's properties

6) Grant "Full Control" to the directory where local web files are stored to ASPNET user and any other VSDevelopers

7) Modify web.config so that connection strings are for SQL2005 Express instead of SQL2005

8) Create a junk HTML page in the root of the local web files directory (just so I can see if IIS works correctly)

9) Open browser and enter Http://localhost/ameliaislandroastscom into the address bar and hit enter

I expected it to display the website and files from my local copy, but it redirects to the public site for some reason.

I have read a number of posts where people have the opposite problem, but not this one.

I tested http://localhost/ameliaislandroastscom/junk.htm and it works fine so I think IIS is correct.

Can anyone please help me understand how to get this working correctly?

Thanks in advance

Paul Hermans