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9/11/2008 12:22 PM
 

Anyone familiar with the error below? I have installed DNN on two different servers (same db server) and get the smae error on both when loading.

Domain Name www.mydomain.net/Store Does Not Exist In The Database

DotNetNuke supports multiple portals from a single database/codebase. It accomplishes this by converting the URL of the client browser Request to a valid PortalID in the Portals database table. The following steps describe the process:

 

  1. Web Server Processing
    • When a web server receives a Request from a client browser, it compares the file name extension on the target URL resource to its Application Extension Mappings defined in IIS.
    • Based on the corresponding match, IIS then sends the Request to the defined Executable Path ( aspnet_asapi.dll in the case of ASP.NET Requests ).
    • The aspnet_isapi.dll engine processes the Request in an ordered series of events beginning with Application_BeginRequest.
  2. HttpModule.URLRewrite OnBeginRequest ( UrlRewriteModule.vb )
    • The Request URL is parsed based on the "/" character
    • A Domain Name is constructed using each of the relevant parsed URL segments.

      Examples:

      URL: http://www.domain.com/default.aspx = Domain Name: www.domain.com
      URL: http://209.75.24.131/default.aspx = Domain Name: 209.75.24.131
      URL: http://localhost/DotNetNuke/default.aspx = Domain Name: localhost/DotNetNuke
      URL: http://www.domain.com/virtualdirectory/default.aspx = Domain Name: www.domain.com/virtualdirectory
      URL: http://www.domain.com/directory/default.aspx = Domain Name: www.domain.com/directory
    • Using the Domain Name, the application queries the database ( PortalAlias table - HTTPAlias field ) to locate a matching record.

      Note: If there are multiple URLs which correspond to the same portal then you can add multiple records to the PortalAlias table pointing to the same portal (PortalId).

      Note: If you are installing the application to a remote server you must modify the HTTPAlias field value for the default record in the PortalAlias table according to the rules defined above.
 
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9/11/2008 12:30 PM
 

I've never run into this error myself but did you create that alias for the portal when logged in as Host?

 
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9/11/2008 5:37 PM
 

I started getting this too. I had a dnn install that I was using as a test bed that worked fine when I left a month ago. When I got back, it didn't - and naturally, no one had changed anything. I have tried everything I can think of to fix the error including restoring the files and DB from backup but I have not had any luck. I checked the PortalAlias table and the domain name is valid for that portal.

 

Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Robert

 
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