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12/10/2007 11:55 PM
 
philos

Joined: 7/19/2006
Posts: 5

hello,

i successfully installed DNN 4.7 in a directory off of the main root directiory of my web site, www.mydomain.com/dotnetnuke.  installing in the dotnetnuke directory and not the root directory was a recommendation of my hosting company.  now that i have everything working from the dotnetnuke directory, is it possible to have users see the DNN home page when they simply enter the main site, www.mydomain.com?  i tried adding www.mydomain.com as an alias in the host user settings, but I just see a directory listing (which includes the dotnetnuke directiory) when i navigate to www.mydomain.com.  is there another method to accomplish this without modifying the settings at the ISP?

any guidance is appreciated.

 
 
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12/11/2007 12:26 AM
 
Mike Horton


Joined: 7/16/2003
Posts: 4865

You could put a default.html file in your root the redirects the user to your DNN directory.
 
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12/11/2007 3:54 AM
 
Julian

Joined: 3/23/2007
Posts: 148

Hi,

You can do this by setting the "Home Directory" in IIS to point to, in my case C:/inetpub/dotnetnuke/website  This offcourse only works if you have access to IIS on your server, and if your DNN site is set as your "Default Website" and not a "Virtual Directory"

Alternatively, you could put a URL redirect on www.yourdomain.com/dotnetnuke/ to redirect to www.yourdomain.com  The downside is that some search engines don't like it if you have URL redirects, unless you put a delay of 5 sec. or more.

Hope this helps

Julian
 
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12/17/2007 5:11 AM
 
philos

Joined: 7/19/2006
Posts: 5

thank you for the suggestion. i was able to use this code for a redirect, however the code only worked from within a default.aspx file placed in the root of the domain.  is there a better method to redirect to the dotnetnuke subdirectory using a default.html file as you suggest?

Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)

    Response.BufferOutput = True

    Response.Redirect("http://www.mydomain.com/dotnetnuke/default.aspx")

End Sub

 

Also, it sounds like the other respondent to this question does not recommend a subdirectory install because it does not optimize for search engines.  is there a general recommnedation to load dotnetnuke in the domain root directory, contrary to the hosting company advice?

 
 
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12/17/2007 9:05 AM
 
Bilal Al-Ghazi

Joined: 5/12/2003
Posts: 115

you can do that by placing the following code in the html page:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=dotnetnuke/default.aspx">
</head>
</html>

 

Bilal Al-Ghazi
 
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