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Among other things, I'm exploring all that the DotNetNuke website framework has to offer.

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  • CompanionSoftware.com - My business site and the home of the Metafile Companion utility for editing Windows metafiles.
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  • DebbieHennes.com - A site created for an artist friend. Sometimes, simple is good.
  • BurtCohen.com - Personal website of the professor, writer, political activist and former New Hampshire state senator Burt Cohen.

For more information, you can see my website development portfolio.

I would also encourage people interested in developing their own web site to look at DotNetNuke. It's what I'm using to create this site. Once it's set up, it's quite simple to add, edit and remove content over time.

I'm using the Minimalist skin created by Evan O'Neil for the overall style of this site. It is quite flexible and easy to work with.
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How to solve the 'Access to the path '...\Portals\0\Repository' is denied" Repository module problem when changing domain names

Jun 27

Written by: Larry Daniele
6/27/2008 8:11 AM

When I changed the domain name for a client's site from "burtcohen.com" to "burtcohen.net", the Repository module started reporting:

   A critical error has occurred.
   Access to the path 'C:\Inetpub\vhosts\burtcohen.com\httpdocs\Portals\0\Repository' is denied.

when all the other modules had no problem.

I did some spelunking in the SQL database and found the following entries in the ModuleSettings table:

   383   anonymouslocation   C:\Inetpub\vhosts\burtcohen.com\httpdocs\Portals\0\Repository
   383   folderlocation      C:\Inetpub\vhosts\burtcohen.com\httpdocs\Portals\0\Repository
   383   folderlocation      C:\Inetpub\vhosts\burtcohen.com\httpdocs\Portals\0\Repository

Note the ".com" in all these paths. This path no longer exists, so that is the cause of the problem. Simply updating them to ".net" fixed the problem.

I don't believe the Repository module should be saving absolute paths to its folders. I have submitted this as a DotNetNuke Repository module bug recommending that it saves relative paths such as:

   383   anonymouslocation   Portals\0\Repository
   383   folderlocation      Portals\0\Repository
   383   folderlocation      Portals\0\Repository

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