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DotNetNuke portal alias Portal is a very useful function in DotNetNuke. It allows you to point multiple domain names to the same portal. You can take advantage of the Portal Alias function when transferring a live DotNetNuke website to a localhost installation or vice versa, making it easy to test any changes to your website. Portal Alias can also be used to convert a child portal into a parent portal with a unique domain name. You can login h...
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Have you ever gotten error "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" on your dontnetnuke website? There could be many different reasons for this error. The most common cause is the application tries to do some initialization from files such as database, xml, text files etc. Usually there are diagnostic messages follow after the error message such as sql error if it is database related issue. And it is usually caused by m...
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Sometimes you may get error "directory ‘/App_ANYTHING/’ is not allowed" on your dotnetnuke application with webhost4life. How to fix that? You will need to check if the file PrecompiledApp.config exists in the application folder.  This file tells the compiler the application is precompiled and not supported to run APP folder. Just remove this folder and the site will work.  Also remember to force recompilation b...
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If you are hosting dotnetnuke site at webhost4life you may get the error message 『parser error message: the entry ‘localsqlserver’ has already been added.』. That’s because the name "localsqlserver" is already defined in "machine.config’ at the server level by default.  So you needs to remove this name first by adding the tag < remove name="LocalSqlServer" / >  in your...
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