I'm a total newbie to Microsoft CMS and is in need of some help.

I installed CMS on my local machine. Played around with the settings
and created a "test" website called "TestApp" (virtual directory in
IIS)


It works fine, I can edit and all. Once I go live however, all the
links point to http://testapp instead of http://localhost/testapp etc.

Also, on mcmshomeport, all the channels (installed samples) point it
http://[channelname] instead of http://localhost/[channelname]


Could someone also explain these terms to me:

1) What is a channel?
2) If I want to move an existing website into a new server (db too),
should I just copy the site along with the DB or do I have to export as
a package in the Site Manager? If I do export, will it automatically
create the DB and insert the EXISTING content?

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Hi,

for the URL: it seems you enabled the "Map Channel Name to Host Header name"
feature in the SCA.
Please disable it.

About the questions below:

1) a channel is similar to a virtual directory in IIS and is the
hierarchical location of a posting
2) if everything in the DB needs to be copied just copy the database. No
need for a site deployment package.

Cheers
Stefan

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"cnetbuddy" <crabel@whittmanhart.com> wrote in message
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> I'm a total newbie to Microsoft CMS and is in need of some help.
>
> I installed CMS on my local machine. Played around with the settings
> and created a "test" website called "TestApp" (virtual directory in
> IIS)
>
>
> It works fine, I can edit and all. Once I go live however, all the
> links point to http://testapp instead of http://localhost/testapp etc.
>
> Also, on mcmshomeport, all the channels (installed samples) point it
> http://[channelname] instead of http://localhost/[channelname]
>
>
> Could someone also explain these terms to me:
>
> 1) What is a channel?
> 2) If I want to move an existing website into a new server (db too),
> should I just copy the site along with the DB or do I have to export as
> a package in the Site Manager? If I do export, will it automatically
> create the DB and insert the EXISTING content?
>

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About question 2, so to transfer a MCMS website from one server to a
TOTALLY new server (.NET and SQL server), just install MCMS on the new
.NET server and copy the DB from the old SQL server to the new one?

One last question, is it possible to point to a channel directly? Like
http:/[channelname] ? I know I can have that option by mapping channel
names to host header in the MCMS config panel but when i enable it and
try to goto a channel directly like http://[channelname], it gives a
page not found error.

Thanks!

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Hi,

did you ensure that your name resolution resolves the channel name to your
local machine and to the MCMS enabled website?

Cheers,
Stefan

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This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights

New to MCMS?
Check out this book: Building Websites Using MCMS: http://tinyurl.com/6zj44
Check out the new book as well: Advanced MCMS development:
http://tinyurl.com/8ugwj
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"cnetbuddy" <crabel@whittmanhart.com> wrote in message
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>
>
> About question 2, so to transfer a MCMS website from one server to a
> TOTALLY new server (.NET and SQL server), just install MCMS on the new
> .NET server and copy the DB from the old SQL server to the new one?
>
> One last question, is it possible to point to a channel directly? Like
> http:/[channelname] ? I know I can have that option by mapping channel
> names to host header in the MCMS config panel but when i enable it and
> try to goto a channel directly like http://[channelname], it gives a
> page not found error.
>
> Thanks!
>

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Sorry to seem like a newbie here but how do I make sure that the name
resolution resolves the channel name to your local machine?

Do you mean setup a new website in IIS and map the channel name to the
host header and map the site path to the MCMS enabled channel path?

Thanks

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