How to reconnect to my portal?

I have just uninstalled SPS, WSS, and IIS. Then I reinstalled IIS
(Asp.net, and BTI), and SPS2003. It started me off configuring the
server, which I think went OK. However, when I went to extend and
create a portal, giving letting it use the default config database, and
the old content database name, it threw an error saying the config
database said it was already extended.

What should I be doing to reconnect? Give it a new config database
name, and the old content database name?

Since I first posted that question in another newsgroup, I detached the
config database, gave it a non-standard name for the config database,
and successfully extended the site. Now it is asking me to select a
template for the site. I want to connect to existing content instead.
How do I do that?


Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
Hollis@outhousebythesound.com
Mukilteo, WA USA

dibblm
Fri Jan 28 11:02:17 CST 2005

I could be incorrect but from what I have read you need to do the
following.

If you used the migration tool first and created a backup you need to
create a new site. Extend the site. Open the site till it prompts you to
select a template. At that point you close the window.

run migrate again to restore the site. This will bring the contect back
into your web and a new database that you assign it to.

I hope this helps some.
"Hollis D. Paul" <Hollis@outhousebythesound.com> wrote in message
news:VA.00001ea3.001d1204@obts-outlookdev.outlookbythesound.mukwoods...
>I have just uninstalled SPS, WSS, and IIS. Then I reinstalled IIS
> (Asp.net, and BTI), and SPS2003. It started me off configuring the
> server, which I think went OK. However, when I went to extend and
> create a portal, giving letting it use the default config database, and
> the old content database name, it threw an error saying the config
> database said it was already extended.
>
> What should I be doing to reconnect? Give it a new config database
> name, and the old content database name?
>
> Since I first posted that question in another newsgroup, I detached the
> config database, gave it a non-standard name for the config database,
> and successfully extended the site. Now it is asking me to select a
> template for the site. I want to connect to existing content instead.
> How do I do that?
>
>
> Hollis D. Paul [MVP - Outlook]
> Hollis@outhousebythesound.com
> Mukilteo, WA USA
>
>