R – SharePoint ASP.NET Mock Site

A good technique I've used previously is to make a copy of the standard SharePoint login page and make changes to that. There is an article by Damon Armstrong that describes how to do this. His article is good apart from making a copy of the _layouts folder which I believe is overkill. You can just put your amended copy of login.aspx and login.master in its own folder under LAYOUTS in the "12 Hive". Then configure ASP.NET to use these custom files with this directive in the FBA site's web.config:

<system.web>
    <authentication mode="Forms">
        <forms loginUrl="/_layouts/CustomFBA/login.aspx" />
    </authentication>
</system.web>

As the custom pages are going under the Layouts folder they should be trivial to add to a solution file.

I could infer from your question that you have just created a new SharePoint Web Application & and no Site COllection for you to open the Site in the SharePoint Designer you will need a Site Collection. To server you need best option I would suggest is to use backup & restore option of the STSADM command. here is how you need to do it.

In the your source server type the following command

STSADM -o backup -url [url of the application you want to backup] -filename [name & path for the file where you want to store the backup]

Now copy the backed up file to the remote server.In the remote server create a Blank application as you did earlier and run the below command

STSADM -o restore -url [url of the new application] -filename [name & path for the file where you have the backup]

Thats it. You are ready to go. Please note that if you have any WebPart,dll ,feature ect you need to deploy them seperatly to the remote server. Best way to do it is to us the SharePoint Solution Infrastructure.Search for SharePoint WSP Solution you will ample number of resource.