Hi.

We are developping a portal based on "DotNetNuke 5.1.1 Install" Files. All DNN files and modules are placed on http://localhost in develop environment from where we are starting "Visual Studio 2005".

To get them online for testing, we do following steps:

1.) "Publish Website" out of the VS project to a temporary folder
2.) Backup DNN database
3.) Copy published files to test server
4.) Restore DNN database on test server
5.) configure web.config for testing environment

From now on, portal seems to start normaly, all modules are loading and functional. Even if I want to do some special things in my modules, I get some not reproducable errors.

Curious thing: When log in as "Host" and looking for some settings, following occurs: All DropDownLists are containing value "<>" as preselected value first. All other list items where selectable, but where does "<>" come from?

What is the mistake, we are doing in this case?

Thanks and bye Thomas