Hi
I'm successfully running 5 MojoPortal sites as hosted solutions. They run .net 4 on IIS7 using MySql. I do not work with the source files, but I do a lot of custom pages and custom modules.

Due to increasing traffic I can not let my production environment run in debug mode any more as it will decrease performance and occasionally introduce breaks for users on the sites.

Now I have copied all my MojoPortal files from the production host to a folder on my local pc to create a development environment there, where I can change my local web.config file to allow debug. I'm still connecting to the hosted MySql production database, but I could as well make a hosted copy as a development database and change my connection strings if needed.

Ready to go I open my local web site with Microsoft Visual Web Developer Express 2010 and test a new local page clicking "View in browser".Next what happens is:

- The browser opens and it tries to connect to: http://localhost:number/localwebsitefolder/localpage.aspx
- And then (probably controlled by the Mojoportal database) it redirects to http://www.mysite.dk/localwebsitefolder/localpage.aspx

I get two questions in my mind, which I don't know how to answer:
1. How can I make it stay on the localhost? I have heard of things like virtual directory and local IIS ... is that a way to go ... and how? Or will the Visual Web Developer be ok to handle the issue with the right kind of settings?
2. Do I have to make further changes to my local web.config file and to the site data in a hosted development copy of the MySql database to make it work?

I hope you can guide me in the right direction, please.

Thanks a lot,
Lars
Denmark
 

Thanks, spot on .

I am using forced redirect to www. But it can be solved as you suggest with "AllowForcingPreferredHostName" set to false in web.config and user.config.

So now I'm up running and so so happy ...

I think for safety I will also work on a copy of the production database.

Thanks a lot Jim