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10/16/2011 7:36 AM
 
Robert Reimer

Joined: 6/24/2003
Posts: 5
I am trying to migrate a legacy HTML web site to DNN and have the top structure migrated but a lot of the old articles are still in the old site.  My test site is in one domain and my legacy site is in another.  I want to point the legacy domain at the new DNN site.  In order to avoid creating broken links for those who may have linked deep into the legacy site, I created virtual directories for the key content from the old site under the DNN IIS 7.0 site.  I did most of the build under DNN 5.6.2.

Over the weekend I upgraded from 5.6.2 to 5.6.3 and then to 6.0.2.  My base portal worked as expected with the nice popup menus.  My site did not.  The base portal was setup on one IIS site, and the real site portal was set up as a separate site.  I could not see a difference in the way that they were set up.  Eventually I created a fresh test portal under the site portal IIS site.  This didn't work either.  After much head scratching I unbound the test site from the site portal IIS and bound it to the base portal IIS.  Everything worked!  So it seemed there was some minor difference between the two setups.  I assumed something to do with the App Pool.  So I bound all the target domains under the one IIS site.  All was happy.  Then I recreated the virtual directories under the other site.  12 hours later, the sites are back to the not working state.  It's fine when not logged in, but as soon as you log in as host, the header for view/edit/layout is not rendered correctly and the popup menus fail.  It looks like some CSS is not being loaded.

Is there something about using virtual directories with a DNN site that is screwing this up I'm missing, or could there be something else subtle going on once I add the virtual directories.

Thanks for any suggestions you may be able to provide.

Warm regards,
Bob Reimer
Al Ain
United Arab Emirates
 
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10/20/2011 2:56 PM
 
Robert Reimer

Joined: 6/24/2003
Posts: 5
Just in case someone makes the same mistake I did, the resolution is that one of the virtual directories I added was called "resources".  This of course masked the Resources directory that is part of DNN, therefore all the scripts and style sheets in that directory couldn't be found causing the problem I saw of being unable to edit the site.  The moral of the story is to be careful when adding virtual directories under the DNN root directory that you aren't masking a directory that's in use.  I added the directories inside the directory I wanted from "resources" as virtual directories inside of the actual DNN "Resources" directory.and everything worked the way I needed it to.
 
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