I have previously setup DNN3.x with MSDE2000 with little trouble, on an XP Pro machine.

What I'm wanting to do on a fresh machine, XP Pro SP2 with .NET 2.0 is install SQL Server 2005 Express, then DNN4.0.3 - as a trial / staging system before doing the same on WH4L as a real system.

I want to create at least 2 separate domains - eg, www.myplace.com and www.mystuff.org - and I assume I can set up 2 separate database instances running in SQL Server Express.

Can someone give me a succinct description of what I need to do to get this going? I assume I need to get the connection strings appropriate to the 2 SQL instances, but can I have a common/shared lot of DNN files or will they have to be in quite separate folders?

If this is all in the manual, please point me in the right direction. I guess it's something related to portal template setups?



Thanks - Ian Thomas

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gxdata

Understood.
Could I use a single database and distinguish the 2 separate domains - www.myplace.com and www.mystuff.org - and, add subdomains to them? It seems that I should be able to.
I'm not understanding the portal setup stuff in the documentation.

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gxdata

You should be able to setup multiple DNN instances in one DB by specifying a different qualifier for each. I haven't done this, however, so can't really provide much experience along those lines. Hope this helps. If you have any problems setting it up, we're always here for ya!

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Michael Flanakin | Microsoft Consulting Services
www.michaelflanakin.com