We are trying to do a favour for a client of ours who has had their website developed by an agency using Umbraco, they have subsequently ended the relationship with the developers and are left with a site they cannot update. We have zero experience with the CMS and are struggling to make some simple changes.
The site itself is deployed on a Windows AWS box which we have access to, but we need to try and add some sort of Reporting and simply change an email address on a web contact form.
Editing the site on the server does not seem to be the way to do it, so we have downloaded the Umbraco environment locally and wondered if there was a way to get a copy of the site fom the AWS box on to our local machine?
Or, alternatively, can anyone suggest a way to get some sort of reporting up and running, and help point us in the right direction for changing the send to address on the web contact form.
Normally an Umbraco installation is just a bunch of files and a SQL database. So, if you have access to the server, getting the site locally via FTP or something like that should not be a problem. For the database same thing, I guess you can do a backup/restore or, if not possible, generate the SQL Scripts. If you are working with SQL Management Studio V2008, you can also script the data, so you can also get the full database locally via scripting.
For the reporting it depends on what you need, but for the change of email address on the web contact form it should be, most probably, either a web.config setting that you just need to change, or a property of the web contact form, which you should then be able to change from the Umbraco back-end. Or, of course, it might be hardcoded in the code-behind of the web contact form is this was implemented as a .Net user control...
Downloading or Editing existing Umbraco Site
Hello,
We are trying to do a favour for a client of ours who has had their website developed by an agency using Umbraco, they have subsequently ended the relationship with the developers and are left with a site they cannot update. We have zero experience with the CMS and are struggling to make some simple changes.
The site itself is deployed on a Windows AWS box which we have access to, but we need to try and add some sort of Reporting and simply change an email address on a web contact form.
Editing the site on the server does not seem to be the way to do it, so we have downloaded the Umbraco environment locally and wondered if there was a way to get a copy of the site fom the AWS box on to our local machine?
Or, alternatively, can anyone suggest a way to get some sort of reporting up and running, and help point us in the right direction for changing the send to address on the web contact form.
Thanks in advance.
Hi Adam,
Normally an Umbraco installation is just a bunch of files and a SQL database. So, if you have access to the server, getting the site locally via FTP or something like that should not be a problem. For the database same thing, I guess you can do a backup/restore or, if not possible, generate the SQL Scripts. If you are working with SQL Management Studio V2008, you can also script the data, so you can also get the full database locally via scripting.
For the reporting it depends on what you need, but for the change of email address on the web contact form it should be, most probably, either a web.config setting that you just need to change, or a property of the web contact form, which you should then be able to change from the Umbraco back-end. Or, of course, it might be hardcoded in the code-behind of the web contact form is this was implemented as a .Net user control...
Hope this helps.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Michael.
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