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9/1/2006 6:53 PM
 
Mike Hicks

www.shadowsnetwork.com
Joined: 10/28/2005
Posts: 104
You need to an a portal alias to the site - DNN will only answer to a portal alias - Initally when DNN installs, it adds only localhost as a portal alias.  So you should go to the inital site and add "http://www.abc.com as a portal alias.  It will then answer to that URL
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9/2/2006 1:45 AM
 
Shawn Mehaffie

Joined: 1/4/2003
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You add an alias for a portal by logging in as host and going to site settings.  The alias section is at the bottom of the page.
 
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9/5/2006 10:47 AM
 
Merlin

Joined: 8/15/2006
Posts: 4
Ok, I understand the alias concept, and I have added aliases.  So here is what I have:

I have a DNN portal, installed as a virtual directory, 10.1.1.10/dnn.  I can browse to it locally from this URL.  Now I set up another alias for it, 10.1.1.10, without the directory at the end.  This, as you might imagine, doesn't work.  I also set up 2 more aliases, dnn.domain.dom/dnn and dnn.domain.dom.  When I browse to dnn.domain.dom/dnn, I get my portal.  When I browse to dnn.domain.dom, I get: "Directory Listing Denied.  This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed."  Here is my problem.  If I were to be running my primary website on this (www.abc.com) all of my users would get this listing denied message unless they also added the virtual directory (www.abc.com/dnn).  Am I missing a step here?  If I was able to install it directly to the website, without the virtual directory, then everything would be fine, but I'm not sure how to work around the /dnn issue, and I wasn't able to install it to the website without it blowing up on me.  (Specifically, it blows up right after the "creating initial portal" area, with the Object reference error.)  Is there a special step to install it directly to a website?  Shadow, you say its possible, but I could not get around that error until I installed into a virtual directory, and now I have this issue from above.

Ideas?  Any other information I can provide to help?
 
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9/5/2006 5:01 PM
 
Mike Hicks

www.shadowsnetwork.com
Joined: 10/28/2005
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Yeah - You are missing something.  First - I assume that this is a typo and that you mean dnn.domain.com and not dnn.domain.dom

Second - You only need to set up the virtual directory ONCE if you are going to create additional portals, they (the additional portals) are created under the subdirectory portals......look at your file structure.......

Third - When you create the initial site (you can call it anything you want but in your case it will be the www.abc.com), DNN installs itself AS LOCALHOST which means that if you typed http://localhost then you will get the website root (located by default at C:\Inetpub\wwwroot) in the file structure.  If you installed DNN anywhere else then, of course this would change.  When installation is completed, and you decided to add a portal alias of www.abc.com then you would add a portal alias to the DEFAULT installation of http://www.abc.com. It will now answer to www.abc .com.  Now to add a second portal then you would a then add a second portal by logging on as HOST and creating the second portal by selecting HOST -> PORTALS from the menu and it would exist under the PORTALS subdirectory (which already exists so there is NO reason to create a second virtual directory) and DNN will ask what will you call the OTHER portal and its URL will be http://localhost/the_other_portal or whatever you named it.  You will then give it a portal alias of www.abc.com/whatever_you_called_it.

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