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8/12/2009 5:26 PM
 

Setup:  Vista Home Premium laptop running IIS 7, .NET 3 and SQL Server Express 2005 (with SQL Server Mgt. Studio Express).  DNN 4.5.3 (preparatory to upgrading).  Now that I can finally access my local copy of the site, I went through it looking for problems, and I found two, which I'd like some help in understanding:

1.  Most (but not all) links to JPGs on the site don't resolve properly.  The IMG HTML contains a statement that looks like this:

src="/Portal/0/..."

This should of course be src=http://localhost/osc/Portal/0/...  As far as I can tell, all the document links on the site were converted correctly from src=http://www.oaklandsymphonychorus.org/Portal to the localhost form; but only a very small number of the JPG links were converted.  I displayed one JPG by manually editing the HTTP.  All these pictures were inserted by using the "Insert picture from Gallery" link in the Rich Text editor.  I generally just pick the photo from the pop-up panel.  Why are the document links properly converted to localhost but not the IMG links?  Is there some way I can correct this short of manually editing all the TEXT/HTML modules?

2.  We have several Gallery modules installed, which I use to display photos of our various events.  Displaying the pages where Gallery modules were installed produces this error:

A critical error has occurred.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

No photographs display.  I log in as a content administrator, and the Gallery module is there on the list of available modules to insert; but all the configurations and links I created (and we are talking hours of work here) are gone.  I don't actually NEED them on the test site; but I'd like to know why they aren't there.  If we ever need to move the site to another hosting company, this could be a considerable problem.  I'd also like to know if there's some way to restore the galleries short of manually recreating them.

Advice and information gratefully accepted.


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8/13/2009 11:04 AM
 

When storing images, etc via the FCK editor, the paths are setup correctly, relative to the base URL on the installation in which they were configured.

So, for example, your images were linked on the production site which was www.mysite.com  In this case a path of /Portals is correct, it translates to the portal root.  But once you restored locally you need /myvirtualdirectory/portals to get the same base path.

This is not something that is automatically changed.  For test purposes you can use a Find/Replace module for Text/HTML modules to resolve this.  I have a free one available on my website, www.iowacomputergurus.com.  I also believe that Engage software has one.


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8/13/2009 2:28 PM
 

Thanks very much, Mitch.  I'll take a look on your site and get that tool.  I have 1st Page 2000 which can do search and replace, but it won't find the files for me!

Any comments on the disappearing Gallery modules??


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8/13/2009 2:32 PM
 

A quick look on the Iowa Computer Gurus site shows versions for DNN 4.6 +, and for DNN 4.4.1 -> 4.5.2.  Can I safely use the 4.4 version on my 4.3 installation??

 


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8/13/2009 2:59 PM
 

Yes, you want this version - 4.4.1 -> 4.5.2.


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