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how to clone my DNN website to another server

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Jie
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6/20/2025 1:09 PM

Hi Community,

I’m trying to clone our DNN website from the production server to a UAT server. Could anyone share the standard or recommended steps to do this properly?

Here’s what I’ve done so far, but the UAT site is not working as expected. I'm wondering if I missed something:

  1. Backed up and copied the entire website directory from production to the UAT server

  2. Granted Network Service, IIS_IUSRS, and the Application Pool Identity full permissions to the copied directory

  3. Restored the production database to the UAT SQL Server

  4. Updated the connection string in webDotconfig to point to the UAT SQL Server

  5. Set up a new IIS web application pointing to the UAT site directory

However, I’m encountering the following errors (examples below):

<code>Could not load provider DotNetNuke.Providers.RadEditorProvider.EditorProvider, DotNetNuke.RadEditorProvider</code>

<code>&#91;ERROR&#93; DotNetNuke.Web.DependencyInjectionInitialize - Unable to configure services for ToSic.Sxc, Version=12.8.0.39546... - LoaderException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Features, Version=1.1.1.0...'</code>

<code>&#91;ERROR&#93; DotNetNuke.Web.DependencyInjectionInitialize - Unable to configure services for WI.Modules.WowChartv2, Version=2.0.9.16913... - LoaderException: Could not load type 'WI.Modules.ModuleBase.ModuleControlBase' from assembly 'WI.Modules.ModuleBase, Version=1.0.0.0...'</code>

<code>&#91;ERROR&#93; DotNetNuke.ComponentModel.ProviderInstaller - ConfigurationErrorsException: Could not load provider DotNetNuke.Providers.RadEditorProvider.EditorProvider...</code>

Any advice or step-by-step guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Best regards,

Jie


 

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6/20/2025 3:06 PM
Jie, assuming you are doing this on a server you control. I would compare server roles and features, including which IIS features are installed on production vs UAT. Also, just a shot in the dark, but also see if .NET Framework 3.5 is installed on the production server but not UAT.
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6/27/2025 12:10 PM

It sounds like you either have missing files or missing permissions.   🤔

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