I have to temporary host a small plain HTML website on my DNN server (just until I have converted it to a real DNN website), is that doable somehow (can DNN route a domain request to a subdirectory)?

Thanks, Tim

 

Hi Mark, would you mind outlining just the basic steps you had to take to get this done? AFAIK DNN will normally just handle .aspx pages, but to make the "pure" html domain work it would need to take a request to "subdomain.com/helloworld.html" (which is configured to use the same server as "mydomain.com"), translate it to "mydomain.com/subdomain/helloworld.html" and deliver that contains "as if" the content was actually stored at "subdomain.com/helloworld.html". I would think that it requires at least some custom handler to get this done.

Let me explain my scenario a little more in depth. Let's say I have two domains, www.mydnn.com and www.myhtml.com. I have a real (Azure in my example) server for mydnn.com and it works like a charme. I only have a bunch of html files for myhtml.com as of now. I want to convert myhtml.com to a DNN side soon. Like you mentioned, I can just store those files in www.mydnn.com/myhtml and access them from there. That is what I am currently doing, and I configured the domain www.myhtml.com to use a cloaked redirection to serve www.mydnn.com/myhtml. Problem is: with this redirection the browser will always display www.myhtml.com in the browser bar, Google will index the wrong and ugly original URL and some other annoyances.

I am currently using Azure only. I could get a cheap plan just to host the smaller html webs (a small webinstance would be too expensive), but I was hoping that there is a way to get this done on Azure, without additional contracts, terms etc. I think what might be possible is to configure the Azure IIS to host mutiple webs and the DNN would be just one of them. An even more elegant solution would be to have DNN delegate the requests directly to the html subdirectory, but I am uncertain, if that is doable?

Thanks,
Tim