Entries for July 2007
I have just released a new version of the SQL Formatter/Colorizer utility. This release is used to resolve issues caused by changes to the parent web service used for formatting! You may download it for free from the "Software" section of this site.
Posted by Mitchel on Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Recently there have been numerous discussions on the DotNetNuke.com Forums regarding hosting providers and who one should go with and who they should switch to because they are unhappy with their current provider. During all of these discussions I have always recommended the company that I use for hosting 3Essentials. Since making this recommendation I have been receiving numerous e-mails regarding the process to actually migrate a live site over to 3Essentials so I thought I would write a short blog article that explains the basics of moving a website over to 3Essentials, in actuality these instructions SHOULD work for most providers, however ther might be some differences.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, July 27, 2007
A common problem that I have recently encountered was trying to identify areas of my website database that were
taking up the most physical storage space. At work I maintain a DotNetNuke installation that includes a 4.5 Gb
reporting database and I was trying to pinpoint the exact sizes of ALL tables in my database and was having a few problems.
I started using the "sp_spaceused" stored procedure but I had to run that for every table, I have over 200 tables in this
database and it was just not feasiable for me to do it this way. Therefore I wrote a stored procedure that will perform
all needed data calls and will return a result set with the data on all tables. In this post I will share the script
as well as a few interesting things I learned while writing it.
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Posted by Mitchel on Friday, July 27, 2007
Due to popular request this article is an updated version of my DNN upgrade
process. Below I will walk you through all steps necessary to upgrade
your DNN website from a previous 4.x version to the most current version
4.5.5. This article is the third revision of my upgrade process documents
and has been enhanced with user recommended tips as well as includes new
recommendations from my experiences installing new versionf of DotNetNuke.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, July 26, 2007
Installing DotNetNuke can be somewhat difficult at times, therefore I am writing
this article to give you a full step by step guide to installing DotNetNuke on
a Windows XP Pro system. The instructions are similar for Windows 2000 and XP
Home but might vary slightly, I have tried to note as many differences as
possible. Windows Vista installation is similar but requires a few different
steps relating to IIS. This article is a re-visit to my first article of
this type geared towards DotNetNuke 4.4.1..
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, July 26, 2007
DotNetNuke introduced a request filter option starting with DotNetNuke 4.5.3 that can allow you to take action
on a user based on various request parameters. In this article I will walk you through how to setup the request filter to
filter out requests from a specific IP address and will discuss in general what the settings are. In this example we will be
placing a filter to block all traffic from a user with an IP of 13.12.15.45 and we will redirect them to google.com.
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Posted by Mitchel on Monday, July 23, 2007
Recently in testing the new version of DotNetNuke 4.5.4 I realized that after upgrading with no errors that when I logged in as my host user I was only able to see the "Admin" menu. This is a very simple issue to resolve, simply add a space to a non critical portion of your web.config and save the file which will trigger an applicat...
Posted by Mitchel on Monday, July 23, 2007
Today I just released version 2.0.1 of my course gradebook module. This module is still free for download from the software section of this site. Included in this release are the below modifications.
Corrected a course association issue that could cause errors on the "Settings" page
Corrected issue where when editing a stude...
Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, July 19, 2007
In the last month or so i was working on some modifications to the DotNetNuke forums module to meet some of their customers needs regarding usability. One of these items was to make the "My Settings" link open in a new window rather than moving the user from their current viewing page. This is a small modification that I thought was quite helpfule so I thought I would share the steps necessary to make the change.
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Posted by Mitchel on Thursday, July 19, 2007
A little over a month ago I posted a SQL Query that can be used to find the most popular links
on a given portal. In that example if you had links that were being tracked that were files it would only
show the fileid for the file and not the file name. Now since there has been a fair amount of reader demand I have
created a new version of thi...
Posted by IowaComputerGurus on Thursday, July 19, 2007
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