How do I move an existing homepage from server to local host?
Hey I'm new to umbraco. Have spend 1½ month on a problem that I hope someon can help me with.
I have a homepage on a provided server and want to get it on my localhost.
I'm using sql server 2008 express advanced on Windows xp proff. sp3 and are going to use Umbraco 4.0.4.2.
My problem is, that I have tried to install umbraco for umbracouser and db = umbraco. This work fine.
I have then downloaded a backup form the database on the server and restored in my own database, Went fine. I have then downloaded the homepage via ftp, so that I can get it into wwwroot. But here I don't know how to do it.
Can some one please tell me step by step how to do... Thanks
as Umbraco is a .Net web application you will not be able to copy only the homepage over to let it run locally, you would have to copy pretty much the whole Umbraco folder (aka the root of your Umbraco installation on the server) to your /inetpub/wwwroot folder. As you are using Windows XP you can't have more than one web site out of the box, which means you can just copy everything from your FTP folder into your local folder.
Additionally you would have to set the right permissions for the network service account as described in the various installation guides.
Please make sure that all pre-requisites are fulfilled on your PC like AJAX and .Net Framework 2.0.
It might also be a good idea to set up a new Umbraco installation on your PC first to see if everything works fine before you try to copy over an existing Umbraco installation.
Feel free to post additional questions if you encounter any problems.
How do I move an existing homepage from server to local host?
Hey
I'm new to umbraco. Have spend 1½ month on a problem that I hope someon can help me with.
I have a homepage on a provided server and want to get it on my localhost.
I'm using sql server 2008 express advanced on Windows xp proff. sp3 and are going to use Umbraco 4.0.4.2.
My problem is, that I have tried to install umbraco for umbracouser and db = umbraco. This work fine.
I have then downloaded a backup form the database on the server and restored in my own database, Went fine.
I have then downloaded the homepage via ftp, so that I can get it into wwwroot. But here I don't know how to do it.
Can some one please tell me step by step how to do... Thanks
Hi Anita,
as Umbraco is a .Net web application you will not be able to copy only the homepage over to let it run locally, you would have to copy pretty much the whole Umbraco folder (aka the root of your Umbraco installation on the server) to your /inetpub/wwwroot folder. As you are using Windows XP you can't have more than one web site out of the box, which means you can just copy everything from your FTP folder into your local folder.
Additionally you would have to set the right permissions for the network service account as described in the various installation guides.
Please make sure that all pre-requisites are fulfilled on your PC like AJAX and .Net Framework 2.0.
It might also be a good idea to set up a new Umbraco installation on your PC first to see if everything works fine before you try to copy over an existing Umbraco installation.
Feel free to post additional questions if you encounter any problems.
Sascha
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