Moving DNN to Discount Asp

I want to MOVE a DotNetNuke site to DiscountASP????

DNN is notoriously fickle when it comes to moving it. I do wish it was more like ASP.Net & Visual Studio with regards to publishing, but the community edition is very difficult to move a site and all changes seem to need to be done on the production version (no publishing changes).

I have a working DNN site that I developed on a web server here in my office using SQL 2008 R2 on a local server. It is installed in a subdirectory called /POL2 on the website.

The site is fairly complex and runs very well.

I want to MOVE it to Discount ASP.

Does the plan below sound reasonable????

I have a domain hosted on Discount. I requested that EVERYTHING be erased from the Domain and now DNN (from the Discount Web App Gallery) is installed and running fine on that site using the Discount SQL 2008 R2. It is installed in a Directory call /POL2 on my Discount site.

I have a current backup of folder /POL2 from my development machine and a BAK file from the SQL 2008 at the exact same time.

I plan to make a copy of the webconfig from the /POL2 on discount, then erase ALL files & subdirectories in /POL2 and then replace it with the files from /POL2 on the development server.

Then copy the Discount ASP web config file back to /POL2.

Then restart DNN by adding a blank line to web.config.

With a little luck the site should be exactly as it was on my development web server when I did the backup.

PLEASE give me any comments or suggestions
Joel in Houston, TX

 

My Tidbits:

1) Yes it is doable.
2) Many sites are running DNN on DASP servers, only trouble any of them seem to post is that it is very resource intensive. Keep in mind these are Shared servers, everyone has to get along. ;-)
3) My guess is the Database structure will be the toughest to migrate.
Not that there is anything wrong, just that getting all of the DB objects over with the DB records is a little harder. Be ready to sync scripts and records with a local SQL Server.

Final note: Go for it, you'll find people here who can help you through it.