Jun 27

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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