Running into issue when moving my website to new location
What I'm trying to accomplish: to publish my website to a new location on the webserver.
What I have done:
1. publish my website to a new location on the webserver
2. copy all files in App_Data from the old website to the new location
3. Copy all media files to the new website
Things I'm running into:
1. The website runs but when I start it up it redirects to the umbraco login page, how do I change this?
2. When I try to login into Umbraco with my admin credentials the account doesn't exist, how can I fix this? Are the credential not stored in the database?
I have no clue what else I can do to make sure the application can acces the database?
The connectionstring looks like the following:
<connectionStrings>
<remove name="umbracoDbDSN" />
<add name="umbracoDbDSN" connectionString="Data Source=|DataDirectory|\Umbraco.sdf;Flush Interval=1;" providerName="System.Data.SqlServerCe.4.0" />
<!-- Important: If you're upgrading Umbraco, do not clear the connection string / provider name during your web.config merge. -->
</connectionStrings>
There and Umbraco.sdf in the App_Data folder and IIS has rights to that folder. What else is there I can check?
I gave it Full Control to the entire folder, still nothing.
Tried it again:
Website runs locally just fine.
Publish website to a local folder, I notice that there is no App_Data folder in the published version. Shouldn't there be one, it's there in the project folder.
I copy the contents of the published website to the webserver and run it.
I get an errormessage saying that there is a connectionstring but that the application cannot connect to the database. Seems logical given the fact that the published folder cannot access the database.
I Copy the AppData folder from the old website to the new one, make sure all the access rights are ok (network service and IISIUSRS have full access.
Still when I run the website it redirects to the Umbraco login page.
So given the first error, stating that it found a connectionstring but couldn't connect to the database, seems to be resolved because it doesn't show it anymore I guess it does connect to the database but still for some reason doesn't show me the homepage.
in past, I saw an issue with SDF DB encoding, in my scenario works fine on the local machine and not on the server, just to test you can try a fresh install on the server to be sure that all configurations are correct
backup DB on the server
change the name of DB
clean connection string and Umbraco.Core.ConfigurationStatus
Restart application and install fresh Umbraco installation in SDF
if it works - the issue in DB encoding. I'll find script to make the change
So I backupped the database, cleared the connectionstring.
I'm using Umbraco 7 so i cleared umbracoConfigurationStatus.
It went into installation mode, upgrade popup keeps showing up, so I set umbracoConfigurationStatus to the version it want to upgrade to.
So after the installation I have a clean website.
However when I put my backup database back it shows an error about missing a table, Umbraco2UserGroups.
It seems I'm going from one error to the next.
One option that I have is to start from the clean install and add all the content again, I still have a lot of that on my local machine.
If you have some great idea on how to fix this let me know.
Running into issue when moving my website to new location
What I'm trying to accomplish: to publish my website to a new location on the webserver.
What I have done: 1. publish my website to a new location on the webserver 2. copy all files in App_Data from the old website to the new location 3. Copy all media files to the new website
Things I'm running into: 1. The website runs but when I start it up it redirects to the umbraco login page, how do I change this? 2. When I try to login into Umbraco with my admin credentials the account doesn't exist, how can I fix this? Are the credential not stored in the database?
Thank in advance
generally, App_Data/TEMP not needed to be copied, looks like that application can't access the database
I have no clue what else I can do to make sure the application can acces the database?
The connectionstring looks like the following:
There and Umbraco.sdf in the App_Data folder and IIS has rights to that folder. What else is there I can check?
please check permission to website folder, application pool should have read/write permission
I gave it Full Control to the entire folder, still nothing.
Tried it again:
I Copy the AppData folder from the old website to the new one, make sure all the access rights are ok (network service and IISIUSRS have full access.
Still when I run the website it redirects to the Umbraco login page.
So given the first error, stating that it found a connectionstring but couldn't connect to the database, seems to be resolved because it doesn't show it anymore I guess it does connect to the database but still for some reason doesn't show me the homepage.
For .Net you should give the app pool permissions for the folder, so you need to give
IIS APPPOOL\YourAppPoolNamepermissionsThe Application Pool runs under the NETWORK SERVICE Identity which has full access. There is no IIS APPPOOL\User to be found.
The old website didnt have this either and it's running under the same application pool, I just changed the home directory off the website in IIS.
Are there any associated errors in the windows application event log?
After the following message nothing else.
As a test I gave the user Everyone full control, still the same issue. I guess we can conclude that it's not a rights issue.
have you tried doing an IISReset from command prompt? Maybe something is being cached somewhere
Just did, still the same.
I see the following in the network tab:
So for some reason Umbraco thinks it's a fresh install.
Is that at the same time as you are getting the error? Probably just another symptom of the same cause.
If you point iis back to the original folder does everything work?
in past, I saw an issue with SDF DB encoding, in my scenario works fine on the local machine and not on the server, just to test you can try a fresh install on the server to be sure that all configurations are correct
Hi Yakov,
That sounds like a plan.
So I backupped the database, cleared the connectionstring. I'm using Umbraco 7 so i cleared umbracoConfigurationStatus.
It went into installation mode, upgrade popup keeps showing up, so I set umbracoConfigurationStatus to the version it want to upgrade to. So after the installation I have a clean website.
However when I put my backup database back it shows an error about missing a table, Umbraco2UserGroups.
It seems I'm going from one error to the next. One option that I have is to start from the clean install and add all the content again, I still have a lot of that on my local machine.
If you have some great idea on how to fix this let me know.
if clean DB is worked for you,
I think you can check you database structure or change collation on you database(it was my issue in past)
to inspect your database you can use a tool like https://fishcodelib.com/database.htm
to change collation
https://github.com/ErikEJ/SqlCeCmd
alternative solution:
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