smigrate tool nor FP work for packaging a site

I am trying to copy our dev WSS site to a testing server. If I use the
smigrate tool it bombs out right after opening the url. It opens the site,
sits for a few secondds, then closes with "Error (possibly fatal): Error:
6553603 Transaction aborted".

If I use FrontPage then it brings up the site just fine using "open site".
It shows the main site and all the sub-sites (created by the developers)
under it just fine. When I choose to export it all is well. I can even
import it onto the new server but it will only contain the top-most url.
Any of the sub-sites will not be there. They have several dozen of these
sub-sites that I don't want to have to re-create and test one at a time.

Any ideas?

Shawn

Gregg
Mon Feb 16 13:41:30 CST 2004

have you tried using STSADM -o backup?

"Shawn" <shawn@issda.com> wrote in message
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> I am trying to copy our dev WSS site to a testing server. If I use the
> smigrate tool it bombs out right after opening the url. It opens the
site,
> sits for a few secondds, then closes with "Error (possibly fatal): Error:
> 6553603 Transaction aborted".
>
> If I use FrontPage then it brings up the site just fine using "open site".
> It shows the main site and all the sub-sites (created by the developers)
> under it just fine. When I choose to export it all is well. I can even
> import it onto the new server but it will only contain the top-most url.
> Any of the sub-sites will not be there. They have several dozen of these
> sub-sites that I don't want to have to re-create and test one at a time.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Shawn
>
>

Troy
Mon Feb 16 14:43:57 CST 2004

Hi Shawn -

Are you trying to use smigrate over an SSL connection (https://)? If so,
make sure that the hostname you give smigrate matches the hostname on your
site's SSL certificate. For example, if your site's SSL certificate says
that it is for foo.example.com, but you just use https://foo, then smigrate
will fail with that error message. Try using https://foo.example.com
instead.

- Troy Starr [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"Shawn" <shawn@issda.com> wrote in message
news:OFeJFIM9DHA.2404@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I am trying to copy our dev WSS site to a testing server. If I use the
> smigrate tool it bombs out right after opening the url. It opens the
site,
> sits for a few secondds, then closes with "Error (possibly fatal): Error:
> 6553603 Transaction aborted".
>
> If I use FrontPage then it brings up the site just fine using "open site".
> It shows the main site and all the sub-sites (created by the developers)
> under it just fine. When I choose to export it all is well. I can even
> import it onto the new server but it will only contain the top-most url.
> Any of the sub-sites will not be there. They have several dozen of these
> sub-sites that I don't want to have to re-create and test one at a time.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Shawn

David
Thu Feb 19 10:05:04 CST 2004

Another $.02
Read the Admin guide for the relative merits of the various methods:
smigrate, stsadm and frontpage
I find stsadm most appropriate here, largely because it retains security,
but I do have to run the backup with administrative permissions.


"Gregg Smith" <SharePoint_MSDN@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> have you tried using STSADM -o backup?
>
> "Shawn" <shawn@issda.com> wrote in message
> news:OFeJFIM9DHA.2404@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> > I am trying to copy our dev WSS site to a testing server. If I use the
> > smigrate tool it bombs out right after opening the url. It opens the
> site,
> > sits for a few secondds, then closes with "Error (possibly fatal):
Error:
> > 6553603 Transaction aborted".
> >
> > If I use FrontPage then it brings up the site just fine using "open
site".
> > It shows the main site and all the sub-sites (created by the developers)
> > under it just fine. When I choose to export it all is well. I can even
> > import it onto the new server but it will only contain the top-most url.
> > Any of the sub-sites will not be there. They have several dozen of
these
> > sub-sites that I don't want to have to re-create and test one at a time.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Shawn
> >
> >
>
>

Shawn
Mon Feb 23 10:05:09 CST 2004

Problem was it didn't like SSL. Once I turned that off then the smigrate
worked just fine.

Thanks to All

"Shawn" <shawn@issda.com> wrote in message
news:OFeJFIM9DHA.2404@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> I am trying to copy our dev WSS site to a testing server. If I use the
> smigrate tool it bombs out right after opening the url. It opens the
site,
> sits for a few secondds, then closes with "Error (possibly fatal): Error:
> 6553603 Transaction aborted".
>
> If I use FrontPage then it brings up the site just fine using "open site".
> It shows the main site and all the sub-sites (created by the developers)
> under it just fine. When I choose to export it all is well. I can even
> import it onto the new server but it will only contain the top-most url.
> Any of the sub-sites will not be there. They have several dozen of these
> sub-sites that I don't want to have to re-create and test one at a time.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Shawn
>
>