if my DNN is installed under Default website as Application (IIS 7.5) and by adding alias to portal1 in format domain1.com/dotnetnuke/portal1 I can access it from external source how do I hide /dotnetnuke/portal1 from URL?



so user can just go to http://domain1.com and be redirected to portal1 based on domain name they type?

well, I must be doing something wrong so here is what I have:

- windows 2008 R2 hosted on dedicated server

- dotnetnuke install under Default website and "Dotnetnuke" is an application

- created A record for domain1.com website that resolves to this W2k8 webserver

- in dotnetnuke alias of default portal is defined as localhost\dotnetnuke

- and portal 1 is defined as localhost\dotnetnuke\portal1 I also added domain1.com as alias



no matter how I change this settings this anytime I type in IE domain1.com it always opens welcome iisstart.hmt page and obviously this is not want I need



at this point my work around is to create redirect.html page and use it a start page for IIS instead of iisstart.htm so if someone type domain1.com it redirects to domain1.com/dotnetnuke/portal1



but first of all I do not want to expose /dotnetnuke/portal1 , secondly it take longer time to open home page because it first hits redirect.html before it actually hit portal1 home page and finally what if I want to have more portals and more website on the same server



what I need to do so typing domain1.com it opens correct portal