I been tasked with changing our corporate website to a CMS. I chose DotNetNuke because it looked to be the best open source CMS I found.
Since AT&T didn't offer DotNetNuke(or anything for that matter) on their servers I needed to switch where I hosted.
Not knowing any better , I purchased hosting with GoDaddy and a temporary domain name (“website”.info) so that I could develop the site while keeping our regular site “website”.com) up and running . I then hoped to move the domain name over to the GoDaddy site and be up and running. The GoDaddy install had me create the DotNetNuke Site in a \dnn directory off the root. I am now wanting to bring the site live as www."website".com and need some help on some of the steps.
I read some of Mark Johnson's blog on GoDaddy and I have written the following steps according to what I read. I could really use someone to look them over and tell me if I am right or if there is a better way. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Current Situation:
Current (old) Domain Name hosted on AT&T = www.”website”.com
Domain name of DotNetNuke Site on GoDaddy = www. “website”.info
I have created the new “website”.info site on the GoDaddy server in a directory called /dnn off the root and added all the content.
I want to redirect the current “website”.com domain name from the AT&T server to the godaddy server (currently hosting “website”.info)
I also want to have www.”website”.com go directly to the /dnn subdirectory upon typing it in a browser. I also want the /dnn hidden from the user.
As I understand it, the following instructions would be the how to accomplish this. Could someone confirm these steps before I start.
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STEP 1 : modify Zone files at old site(AT&T) to redirect “website”.com to GoDaddy Site
Change “A” records in the zone file on the AT&T server to the following :
NAME TTL Class Type Spec
“website”.com 86400 IN A x.x.x.x (chgd to the godaddy server address)
www.”website”.com 86400 IN A x.x.x.x (chgd to the godaddy server address)
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STEP 2: Change Default Domain on GoDaddy site:
In Hosting Control Center-settings-domain management there are two domains Change the “website”.com to be the primary Domain
Before Modification:
Domain Name Folder SubDomains Status
“website”.info \ ADD setup primary
“website”.com \ Add setup
After Modification:
Domain Name Folder SubDomains Status
“website”.info \ ADD setup primary
“website”.com dnn\ Add setup
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then in the folder for
“website”.com add
dnn/ as the site's root folder
STEP3: Change Portal Alias
Goto Admin-Site Settings on your DNN install and “Add New HTTP ALIAS” to add new alias with the name of the subfolder
Also add: (optional)
www.”website”.com
“website”.com
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STEP 4 : Edit the Web.config file
Within the “appsettings” section of web.config , find the “HostHeader” key (do a text search for “hostheader”). Set the value to be the name of the subfolder containing your auto-installed copy of DNN It should look like this:
< add key=”HostHeader” value=”dnn/” >< /add >
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have already heard that GoDaddy is not the place to host DNN but I'm too far into it now. So any advice to get me going would be appreciated.
Phil Ingram
ingram@centurywirelineservices.com