[ale] Website Conversion

[Erik Mathis]

I've only ever migrated one site off dotnetnuke. I used wget to spider 
the site and some sed foo to remove dotnetnuke crud from the files wget 
made. iirc it took about 2 hours of work.

-Erik-

On 10/31/2012 04:20 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
> On 10/31/2012 03:12 PM, Bob Kruger wrote:
>> The current site is informational.  Primary purpose now is to provide 
>> the organization's newsletter for download.   For the future site, 
>> there is some e-commerce that would happen.  Also, membership should 
>> be handled via the site using some sort of e-commerce application.  
>> Because there are different membership options (based on distribution 
>> of the newsletter, e.g. electronic, printed, or CD), we would like to 
>> see that handled via the site as well.
>>
>> Database is Microsoft SQL, but exporting and importing will not be 
>> that difficult and I can probably handle that.
> It does not sound like it should be to difficult to migrate more like 
> tedious and possibly time consuming. You might want to review the 
> site's html to see how clean it is. I do not know how messy the final 
> code produce by DotNetNuke isor if tends produce non-standard html.
>>
>>     -----Original Message-----
>>     From: Jay Lozier
>>     Sent: Oct 31, 2012 2:55 PM
>>     To: ale at ale.org
>>     Subject: Re: [ale] Website Conversion
>>
>>     On 10/31/2012 12:57 PM, Bob Kruger wrote:
>>>     All;
>>>
>>>     I "inherited" maintainance of a website that is run via
>>>     DotNetNuke on a Microsoft server.  To say that I am
>>>     undershwelmed is an overstatement.  However, the site has been
>>>     up for a number of years, and site users have gotten used to the
>>>     look and feel.  To change that would not be good.
>>>
>>>     At the same time, the webhosting provider that I inherited, e.g.
>>>     webhost4life.com, has proven to be increasingly incompetent and
>>>     unresponsive with useless tech support from Mumbai.  All are
>>>     sorry for my inconvenience, but they do nothing to fix
>>>     problems.  Time for a change
>>>
>>>     Iam looking for someone who can cross both Windows server based
>>>     systems and Linux based systems to migrate what we have to a
>>>     Linux based platform and software, but keep a similar look at
>>>     feel. And, there is compensation with this project, e.g. not
>>>     asking for free work.
>>>
>>>     Any takers or recommendations?
>>>
>>>     V/r
>>>
>>>     Bob
>>>
>>
>>     Bob,
>>
>>     A couple of quick questions:
>>
>>     What type of site is it (e-commerce, informational, etc.)?
>>     I am concerned about what security, data encryption, etc. that
>>     are required.
>>
>>     Does it use a database (MS SQL Server most likely if it is MS based)?
>>     In principle migrating from one relational database to another is
>>     more a pain than especially difficult. Details such as indexing,
>>     views, etc may be troublesome in the conversion and there some
>>     differences in the SQL dialects.
>>
>>     Is there any server side scripting and if so what language?
>>     My guess for an MS site is asp.
>>
>>     There are several cheap, good hosting companies available and
>>     from what know transferring to another host is not terribly
>>     difficult. I think transferring is mostly about paying a fee and
>>     wait a few minutes and you are done.
>>
>>     I have recently started working with Fat Cows (www.fatcows.com)
>>     for a couple of informational websites. So far they seem very good.
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Jay Lozier
>>     jslozier at gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
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