When putting your portal into production, you don't need to put all the files that come in the standard DNN package. While maintaining the folder hierarchy, you only need post files with the following extensions:
aspx, ascx, asmx, asax, config, xml, xsl, gif, jpeg, bmp, dll, css, sql, htm, html, resources
Also, your entire Portals folder unless you do not want the contents duplicated.
Nik
Nik Kalyani
Speerio, Inc.
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