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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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Feb 24, 2007

Promoting DNN User to Super user

This follow-up post discusses the process to change a user account to a "host" account via SQL. This is a follow-up from my previous blog regarding creating a DNN Host account via SQL.

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Feb 23, 2007

Creating DotNetNuke Host Account Via SQL

This posting provides a guide on how to create a new host account within DotNetNuke from your SQL Database. This is very helpful if you ever get locked out of your host account for any reason or for all of the new DotNetNuke users that have been having installation problems with the host and admin accounts. NOTE: This is provided for your use at your own risk!

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Feb 13, 2007

Upgrading from DotNetNuke 4.3.5 (and other 4.x versions) -> 4.4.1

I have been answering a large number of questions regarding upgrading from DotNetNuke 4.3.5 to 4.4.1 and have created this document to outline the process to complete the upgrade. Please note that I am not responsible for any data loss or corruption that might result from an unsuccessful upgrade of DotNetNuke. Also, even though this tutorial is guided towards users of 4.3.5 this should work for any 4.x version to upgrade to 4.4.1, the upgrade process for 3.x users is NOT the same.

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