Re: Attaching a database

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From: Mike Walsh [MVP] (englantilainen_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:04:08 +0200

Have you looked at the several KB articles containing the words
"configuration database" that are listed in the WSS FAQ / Useful Documents /
KB Articles ?

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
WSS FAQ at wss.collutions.com
Please post questions to the newsgroup only.

"Christian Holthe" <christianSPAM@holthe.com> wrote in message
news:0sB6c.11101823$Of.1861446@news.easynews.com...
> Still testing and playing around with wss I decided to start fresh and
> reinstall my windows 2003 server and add wss to it, this time the RTM
> version.
>
> Backed up my orignial database and have followed the steps in the KB
article
> to restore the database.
>
> I am able to add the content database to the virtual server, but when I
try
> to access the website I get the 'The Web site that is referenced here is
not
> in the configuration database'.
>
> This happens after I am prompted to enter my username and password for the
> old site.
>
> The changes made to the server is that it has changed it's name from
> dottnett to sharepoint and is no longer it's own domain controller in a
> testdomain, but a normal server in a production domain.
>
> Any tips to what I might to do completely attach the restored database
> (which is also called dottnett) to the new site?
>
> No big problem really, since I was in testing I can start over, but it's
fun
> learning.
>
> Christian
>
>

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