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freshly deploying over a blank site?

I have a deployment issue blocking me from deploying a production site back over an older Dev site. I've tried deleting the job and path and doing a full deploy, which normally works.The web app is an external facing site created using the Blank site formatwith a singlesite collection at the root and 1 content DB.

I'd like to start with a new blank site collectionat the root of the web app so that I won't recieve the deployment errors when deploying from Production (the error is along the lines of "file already exists...") If I can avoid it, I'd rather not delete the web application itself.

What's the process to start over with a clean site collection; can I simply remove the current contentDB, add a newempty content DB and deploy to it, or do I delete the site collection itself and create a new one?
Thanks

Moved byMike Walsh MVPMVP, ModeratorThursday, July 09, 2009 6:03 PMdeployment q (From:SharePoint - General Question and Answers and Discussion)
Edited byCorumMc Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:20 PMMy desciption of the dll and webconfig was background and for why I was looking to refresh the site collection; not the issue itself. I've reprhased it to be a little more clear. Sorry about any confusion.
Edited byMike Walsh MVPMVP, ModeratorThursday, July 09, 2009 6:02 PM"Refresh site" didn't seem to be deployment. Title amended slightly

CorumMc Thursday, July 09, 2009 5:54 PM

You can keep the same database, and simply delete the default Site Collection. You can do this by going to Central Administration --> Application Management --> Delete Site Collection. Then you'll simply create a new site collection at the root of your web app, by clicking on the Create Site Collection link above the Delete Site Collection link.

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Marked As Answer byCorumMc Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:58 PM

Becky Bertram Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:04 PM

As the programming guys have the most experience with deploying sites including dlls and web config etc. changes, I'm moving this to their (Programming)forum.

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Mike Walsh MVP Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:01 PM

Sorry about not having been clearer. The dll and config was simply the reason for wanting to refresh the site collection rather than deleting the web app and starting a new one. I've edited the text to hopefully be more clear.

CorumMc Thursday, July 09, 2009 6:58 PM

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Marked As Answer byCorumMc Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:58 PM

Becky Bertram Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:04 PM

Thanks, figured it was as easy as that, but I'd seen mention somewhere that doing so didn't clean everything out of the Content DB and others who said the site collection delete process timed out on them and failed.

I wanted to make sure I was starting with as clean a slate as possible so that's when I'd thought about swapping the old content DB out for a new empty one.

I'll delete the collection and hope MOSS does it's work well. :) While I think deploymenthas beenway too finicky I do love MOSS over the ancient MCMS we'd put up with for 6 years.

CorumMc Thursday, July 09, 2009 7:58 PM

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