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7/29/2006 5:45 AM
 

I have just setup the DNN 4.3.3 on a Windows Server 2003 EE for local domain in the intranet, and I can access the DNN smoothly using localhost.

Now, I need to setup individual portal for the website in this server.

There has already have a website (xxx.home) defined in the server (home directory already created in c:\inetpub\vhosts\xxx.home), it is already running with some HTML pages, and I want to ehance this website to use DNN feature.

I open the localhost/dotnetnuke and login as host, then Host->Portals->Add New Portal

Portal Type:  Parent
Portal Alias: xxx.home

But now, I don't know which Home Directory should be used.

I have try to customize and enter c:\inetpub\vhosts\xxx.home (existing path) for it, and I expecting that it will copy the necessary file to this directory for DNN.  However, when I fill up all other information and press the Create Portal, the following error is prompted,

'/DotNetNuke_2/C:\Inetpub\vhosts\vm2003dnn/' is not a valid virtual path.

It seems that the protals file may be placed under the DotNetNuke directory.

As I don't know how to set the Home Directory, then I press the Customize again to use the default, and press the create protal again, it will then jump to the existing website of http://xxx.home, which is not a DNN portal.

And the url link in DNN Portals also pointing to the existing website, I cannot enable the DNN on it.

It seems that I have missed some step to change the Home Directory for http://xxx.home, isn't it?

May I know which step I have missed if I want to change the existing website to use be a DNN portal?

Thanks in advance!
OJames

 
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8/5/2006 3:34 AM
 

I have try to search the document comes with DoNetNuke, and I alrady follow the step here, but I cannot make the website to use DotNetNuke as default.

Can anyone please help me or tell me which document I shoudl read?

 
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8/5/2006 5:45 AM
 
have a look at the DotNetNuke download page and download the documentation pack, that includes an installation guide.

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

dnnWerk - The DotNetNuke Experts   German Spoken DotNetNuke User Group

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8/5/2006 11:02 PM
 

leupold wrote
have a look at the DotNetNuke download page and download the documentation pack, that includes an installation guide.

 

I have already read the installation guide many many times.......

In the installation guide, it ony tell us to following the instruction as the in the "Add Portal" page (from P.42 to P.45, right?).  Since there has an option "Home Directory" in this page, it give me a wrong idea that DNN should point to the original home page of the website, or the website setting in IIS has to point to this "Home Directory".  However, this "Home Directory" is actually not related to the home directory of a website, it's only a internal directory used for DNN.  And all websites using DNN portal MUST point to the installation directory, this is different from the usual setting as in IIS, it's really confusing.

Anyway, I have solve the problem from other post.  But I do hope that the document can make this point clear, or it would be better to give an example in the area of "Installing Additional Portals".

 

 
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