Hi,

Rather than go crazy and upgrade my production sites to 6 without a test, I have installed DNN6 on my local machine and configured it to accept the template and Resources files from my production sites.

Setting up the base site (default) goes smoothly.  I can get to it with http://localhost/dotnetnuke/

So I create a portal site (portal # 1) with a name 'portaltest'  using the template from my Production site.  I can't get to it.  http://localhost/portaltest/ fails as does http://portaltest/  

Can someone please tell me which mysterious thing I failed to set/reset/change?

Running on a XP box against a network SQL Server 2005.

Thanks

John

Just the

404 - page can not be found error. (http://localhost/portaltest/) or

Connection Error (http://portaltest/)

Sigh

I think Robert is spot on.

The root issue here is that you are trying to create child portals in an installation that is already running in a virtual directory. I realize that that is because you are using XP. I can't imagine that this is a setup that resembles your live environment at all.

So what you need to do is to create your dotnetnuke site as a real website. Sadly XP only allows one website active at a time, you need third party tools to fix that. Or you can upgrade to Windows 7...

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Erik van Ballegoij, Former DNN Corp. Employee and DNN Expert

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