Error moving from one server to another

Posted by Community Admin on 20-Apr-2011 00:00

Hi,
I'm trying to move a 4.0 website from one server to another. It's using SQLExpress 2008 as the DB. I've backed up/restored the db from old server to new. I also copied the website files from the original server to the new one. I changed the DataConfig.config file to point to new db. I get the following error:

Invalid root node configured for pages. No root node with the name of "FrontendSiteMap".

Is that a licensing error? Or a database connection error? Or is IIS not setup right?

Thanks,
Brandon

Posted by Community Admin on 21-Apr-2011 00:00

Hi Brandon,

Please take a brief look at the following forum thread where my colleague Ivan explained possible reasons for the error you are getting:

http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/forums/sitefinity-4-x/bugs-issues/error-invalid-root-node-configured-for-pages-no-root-node-with-the-name-of-quot-frontendsitemap-quot.aspx

Regards,
Victor Velev
the Telerik team

Posted by Community Admin on 21-Apr-2011 00:00

Hi thanks,
The sql database was recreated (I think maybe the connection string was incorrect). Regardless, I deleted the new (empty) database, renamed the original one to match the one it created and everything came up.

Thanks,
Brandon

Posted by Community Admin on 12-Sep-2012 00:00

I am getting this same error as well and I have followed all the steps here

http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/kb/sitefinity-4-x/when-sitefinity-project-is-deployed-to-production-server-an-invalid-root-node-configured-for-pages-no-root-node-with-the-name-of-frontendsitemap-error-is-thrown.aspx

The only question I am having on those steps, on the project naming issue What do I need to change it to or do I need to change it to anything if is is deployed under root or is that simply an internal naming convention used by the project.

Also in my DB it has 2 sets of the tables one dbo and one with my username.

Any help would be appreciated.

Posted by Community Admin on 12-Sep-2012 00:00

I am getting this same error as well and I have followed all the steps here

http://www.sitefinity.com/devnet/kb/sitefinity-4-x/when-sitefinity-project-is-deployed-to-production-server-an-invalid-root-node-configured-for-pages-no-root-node-with-the-name-of-frontendsitemap-error-is-thrown.aspx

The only question I am having on those steps, on the project naming issue What do I need to change it to or do I need to change it to anything if is is deployed under root or is that simply an internal naming convention used by the project.

Also in my DB it has 2 sets of the tables one dbo and one with my username.

Any help would be appreciated.

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