Well, after a little finger crossing, and luck I imagine, I got this working locally now. I'll share what I found in case others need:
To make it run on localhost it appears 1 of 2 things needed to happen:
- Don't include the localhost port number in the portalalias table?
- if you do include the port number check the web config App Settings area to make sure <add key="UsePortNumber" value="true" /> is not commented out.
I believe I tested both of these and it worked.
for me, I was doing a major upgrade going from 5.1.1 to 5.6.1 .. trying to do it in one step failed, so I happened on this "Suggested Upgrades Path" page --
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/W... .. I followed it .. and with a little work in the code, I managed to get it working.
Starting out, I was not able to login or use any of the menu items, so on a hope that things fixed themselves, I just started installed the upgrades
5.4.4 did not yeild any improvements on the login and to get to the install steps, I was required to add a System. namespace reference to a couple lines of code in the App_Code/Chat/DnnChatCodeHelper.vb file at line 309:
Dim ctx As System.Web.HttpContext = System.Web.HttpContext.Current
and ?? can't seem to remember the second one.
After those tweaks the install process executed with out issue.
5.5.1 did manage to make the login work and the menu bar functional. I was required to also add a System. namespace to module I had installed to get everything to compile after applying the patch. This was the App_Code/effority.UserDirectory module at lines 72? and 78?
For Each pair As System.Collections.DictionaryEntry In modSettings
5.6.1 was applied successfully with out issues at this point.