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Reputation: 2941

How to access content of a DotNetNuke portal?

Total noob question on DotNetNuke, using it for first time.
My client gave me a dump of his website (made in DNN) and he wants to host his site with me.

He has a list of portals. I would like to know how I can view one in localhost.
I have created a DotNetNuke application in my local IIS that points to the code my client gave. This folder has DotNetNuke.webproj file.

Inside Portals directory I got a folder named StackMe, for example. How do I access that portal?

When I browse to http://localhost/DotNetNuke/ it redirects to http://localhost/DotNetNuke/Install/UnderConstruction.htm

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5204

Answers (3)

JonH
JonH

Reputation: 821

If you're seeing the under construction page, something's amiss (captain obvious here).

Some steps to help troubleshoot on your local machine:

  1. Turn custom errors off in the web.config. Just so you can see any ASP.NET errors if they bubble up.
  2. Ensure that DotNetNuke is able to connect to your database. There's two places you need to check in the web.config file.
    • In <connectionStrings>, check the <add name="SiteSqlServer" ... /> element.
    • in <appSettings> check the <add name="SiteSqlServer" ... /> element.
  3. In your SQL database, find the DNN tables. The table you're interested in will be named "PortalAlias" (or "dnn_PortalAlias" or whatever your table prefix is). Each portal is mapped to a URL. If DNN detects you've arrived at the site using a URL it doesn't recognize it will forward you to one that is does recognize.
    • Run a SQL query and see what's in PortalAlias (run a select *). Make note of the Portal ID.
    • Insert a new record into the table. INSERT INTO PortalAlias (PortalID, HttpAlias) VALUES (<YourPortalID>, 'http://yoururl')
    • Restart the site by restarting the app pool or resetting IIS
      1. Check IIS and ensure that your site is running with the correct permissions.
      2. Check IIS and ensure that the site App Pool is running the correct .NET Framework version.

If all that fails...

I have had limited success is renaming the Install directory to something else, say _Install and hitting the site again so that I can see what the ASP.NET error is. After I get the site running again I revert it to its original name.

Good luck!

Upvotes: 6

bdukes
bdukes

Reputation: 155905

If it's redirecting to Under Construction, the site probably isn't able to reach the database. DotNetNuke isn't going to be able to display anything without a connection to the database. You might get more information if you try to hit http://localhost/DotNetNuke/Install/Install.aspx?mode=none

The mapping of a portal to a URL is handled in the PortalAlias database table. You should just be able to add your localhost URL to that table, and then be able to access the site (once the site can hit the database). If the site has multiple portals, you'll need to add an alias for each portal you want to access.

Upvotes: 8

Prashant Lakhlani
Prashant Lakhlani

Reputation: 5806

This will be a long story but I will try to keep it small:

Assuming you have localhost/dotentnuke website setup correctly,please backup your database before trying following:

  1. Look at the portalAlias table in the database and see entries with portalID=0
  2. Remove all the entries for portal 0 and alter the single entry to point to localhost/DotNetNuke
  3. Try to run the url again.

Keep in mind that portalAlias is the table where dnn looks, and portal 0 is the default portal, so that should be at least one entry for portal 0 in portal alias.

Since you are having dnn instance with multiple portals, you have to create separate website for each if they are parent portals. and alter the httpalias to your local iis url for each of the portal.

Let me know if you need any other help.

Upvotes: 0

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