Hi All,

First post so go easy..

DNN 4.05

After the pain of transferring a dev DNN site from mydomain.com/test to anotherdomain.com I'm left with no images.  All image links refer to anotherdomain.com/test and so do not show.

Here's how I went about the move:

1.  Change logical db name in dev db to match new db name
2.  Add anotherdomain.com to the portal http alias
3.  Copy old dev db and rename to new db name
4.  Copy all IIS DNN files across to new IIS site
5.  Change permissions on ALL files as appropriate - IWP 'Full', IUSR read + write

BTW - do I really need to grant IUSR write on all files or just the odd folder (upload folders)?  If so which folders?

6. Modify web.config with new username/database names 

All seems ok, but no images.  I suspect this is due to the site originally being a child portal and now it's a parent (I think).

I would appreciate your advice in how to convert it - perhaps I need to export the portal and add back as a parent - trouble is the export function erros everywhere!

Or do I simply create a folder anotherdomain/test in IIS, add a http portal alias and copy all the root DNN files into this new folder.  Then point anyone going to anotherdomain.com to anotherdomain.com/test? 

Advice would be very much welcomed.

Lea

Hi Reto

I appreciate your reply.

Changing the db, no problem, can you tell me where though?

Also, this sounds like rather a fiddle, surely DNN realise this is a common task for the majority of developers and so I would have expected a inbuilt option - I'll take a look at Engage F3 too.

Lea

Hi Rob

Please forgive my lack of experience.

When I created the site I used DNN to simply upload the pictures the the Image Gallery, then using the Image/Picture icon in the httl/text editor dropped them onto the page.  I see that DNN has placed all images beneath mydomain.com/child/portals/0/    I guess this creates non-relative links.  So not to fall foul of this again, how does one add images to pages using relative links?

Many thanks

Lea