smcculloch posted on July 28, 2005 16:32
I just received this on the official forum for the
DotNetNuke Book.
I'm sure it's something I did, but on page 44 you
mention modifying the Web.config file in the websites folder where DNN was
unzipped. I see a 03.01.00.config file but no Web.config file. Any idea where
I might look for it?
A change was made it DotNetNuke 3.1 (after the book was published) to not
include the web.config called "web.config".
The reason was the
web.config contains a hash key for encrypting passwords that developers are
encouraged to change, when a new release came out, the web.config would be
overwritten and there hash key lost forever. So they would be unable to
login.
To help prevent this happening, we provide 2 other files,
developers can rename to web.config. These are development.config and
release.config, both are optimised for either scenario. So take a copy of either
and rename it to web.config for a clean install.
The 03.01.00 config file
is a file comparison on what has changed between the release so developers can
merge in any changes (if new config sections have appeared, etc)
Hope this helps,