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Apr 14, 2007

DotNetNuke Upgrade Tips (Lessons Learned)

Well, yet again I decided to upgrade my DNN installation to the newest version. This time when I was testing my upgrade as I always do with my development environment at home I ran into a few more problems than what I encountered in previous upgrade attempts. Therefore I thought I would share the items that I have recently identified as being important to watch when upgrading. Most of the items I will discuss below are web.config settings that must be copied over successfully. To view my comprehensive guide to DNN upgrades, please look at my previous postings under DotNetNuke.

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Apr 03, 2007

Allowing HTML Form Submissions From DNN

At one point or another everyone has a need to include an HTML form within a DNN website. This might be to link to a PayPal Buy it now button or one of many other options. Well as most of us know it is not possible to simply put an HTML form into a Text/HTML module and have the form submit. This is due to the ASP.NET form that is existing in the website that is used to handle all server-side controls. However, there is a fairly simple method to allow the form to post using some simple javascript.

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Apr 02, 2007

Changing Skins via Database (Emergency Procedures)

At one point or another, it seems that almost everyone accidentally makes a change to a DNN installation that ends up breaking things. One of these situations that I never considered in the past was the accidental application of a skin with errors. I was contacted by someone today that accidentally applied a skin that caused a null reference exception, this caused the entire site to be unavailable. They could not access any pages and could not get back to the skin admin pages. Well, this leads me to find a method of resolving the issue via the database. In this entry, I will describe the steps needed to change the skin to a default skin via the database.

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Mar 30, 2007

Converting/Integrating ASP.NET Application with DotNetNuke. Options available?

The question has appeared multiple times recently regarding methods to convert a standard ASP.NET application into a DotNetNuke module as well as options to “integrate” an existing ASP.NET website into DotNetNuke. This concept is very complicated for many individuals to follow and below I will discuss the options available to those looking to either integrate solutions or to create new DotNetNuke modules from existing applications.

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Mar 15, 2007

Logging ASP.NET Application Restarts

Like many ASP.NET programmers, I utilize a third-party hosting company to host all of my sites. We have all ran into situations where we have been losing sessions and other oddities and it would be very helpful to find out exactly what caused the application to restart, we will discuss in this posting how to log this information

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Mar 09, 2007

How to create a backup of DNN and the database

Another very common question that I see regarding DotNetNuke is when and how should I backup my DotNetNuke site. This topic is VERY important and requires a bit of planning, especially if you do not have direct access to your database server to perform your own backups. In the following sections I will first talk about what you must backup and why some of those items are very important. I will then discuss how to perform a DNN backup and SQL Server backup, both for SQL 2000 and 2005. Finally I will discuss options available for third party modules for performing backups for individuals that do not have direct access to their servers.

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