I recently tried to perform a site restore to my local windows Vista machine from a backup from my live site.

I followed the vista setup from the video tutorial (nicely done btw)

I tried to keep everything as close to the live site as possible
1. Added the same database user (instructions from video)
2. Restored the database backup to SQL Server Express
3. Copied the website backup to a local directory.
4. Performed setup for IIS setup (instructions from video) (Virtual directory, Classic App Pool, permissions)
5. Modified web.config connection strings (both) for my local machine server name (left everything else the same)
6. Tried to start the site via Web Developer Express
7. Figured out that I needed to modify the Portal Alias to be "localhost/virtualDirName" (modified by hand via  SQL Server Express Management Studio) otherwise you get redirected back to the live site (oops)
8. Figured out that SQL Server Express Management Studio has to be configured for Windows and SQL Authentication (database user error message)
9. Also added default.aspx to the top of the Default document list.

Now I get "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage"

I have tried going over the video and repeating the steps many time with the same result

I must be missing something. Any thoughts?

Thanks
Casey

Thanks for the quick response!

It appears so.

If I put http://localhost:8000/images/action_rss.gif in the browser window for example I get the rss icon.

I tried creating a simple test.htm page at the root level and that also seems to work.

I tried navaigating directly to http://localhost:8000/default.aspx and I get the cannot display message.

I tried navigating to something that does not exist in the directory http://localhost:8000/default.htm and I get an IIS7 404 - Not Found page.

This all made more sense to me with XP.

thanks

casey

I just noticed that if I try going through the virtual directory (http://localhost/utrt) that nothing works. Only when I specify the port number (but not for default.aspx in either case)

thanks

casey

That seems to have worked. I can do my local development now.

Thanks Mitchel!

Still curious why the virtual directory didnt work though?

thanks
casey