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2/20/2006 8:29 PM
 
Brian Brock

Joined: 2/20/2006
Posts: 27

I've got a simple-sounding question that I haven't been able to find an answer to.  Here's the deal: DNN is installed in http://www.nameofmydomain.com/nameofmydomain and this is what you type in to access the home page.  (Not a real website link, or it may be, but I'm just using it as an example.)  Now, how can you forward your domain name so that http://www.nameofmydomain.com gets you to the home page (assuming just typing the foregoing in returns a "page under construction" message and/or "domain not found") and will display http://www.nameofmydomain.com in the address bar?  Hosting is by GoDaddy.

It sounds like a simple domain forward would work, but whenever I try to forward to domain, as described above, and then type in http://www.nameofmydomain.com my browser (IE6 - current w/ patches) seems to get into an endless loop, like: http://www.nameofmydomain.com/nameofmydomain/nameofmydomain/nameofmydomain/nameofmydomain/nameofmydomain

 

And so on.  Is DNN not functional in this regard, or am I just missing something incredibly basic here?
 
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2/22/2006 10:54 PM
 
Scott Willhite


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Joined: 4/11/2003
Posts: 3047

Domain forwarding will not work... does not work... is not a solution.  The entire DotNetNuke model ( hosting multiple sites from a single account ) relies on HTTP header values for determining which site has been called.  Host headers on a DNS forward do not contain values that DNN can work with... so it doesn't know what to do with a forwarded request.  In general, always use a real DNS entry to ( A or C record ) to point to a DNN site.

Now in your case, I understand this is not an option with GoDaddy.  But a simple html page with a redirect will give you what you need... no need for fancy DNS, blah, blah, blah...

Index.htm ( or whatever your default document is at the root )

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.nameofmydomain.com/nameofmydomain">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Scott Willhite, Co-Founder DNN

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly... what is essential is invisible to the eye. "
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
 
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