sorry if this topic already was discussed earlier, I jut couldn't find proper solution to my problem. So...

I am pretty new at DNN, but I have programming expierence with ASP.NET 2.0. My friend installed DNN on remote host, he is not programmer, he just downloads dnn modules and installs them into our site. He just uses dnn interface to develope the site.

I want to run that DNN copy on my local computer, edit it with VS2005 and deploy back to the remote host. I have full FTP access and access to DNN database on remote host. So I already installed DNN database copy to my local machine. Also I have downloaded the source/dll files (~50MBs), so I set up virtual folder (http://localhost/DNN/default.aspx) on IIS. I modified connection string in config file and tried to run the local dnn copy. What is surprising, local dnn copy redirected me to remote host link! (to original site where our dnn is actually hosted). I found host settings table in the DB, tried to change one value, but it didn't help even after IIS restart. (context search in root folder didn't find any substring of original host link, so I assume it's somewhere in database).

Following some recent article on this page, I also tried VS2005 and opened web project from my local web sites. Yes it loaded me all files and folders. When I tried to build web site again, I got one error. If my friend is not wrong, that error is related to some specific module which has some protection against copying (not sure, maybe it has trial version and sis trictly assigned to remote host machine).

Sorry for long talk, all I want to ask, what is best/easiest way to get working dnn copy on local machine?.. any tips are welcome.