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1/17/2006 10:44 PM
 
j m

Joined: 1/12/2006
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I'm not sure I understand what a portal does.  Here is what I wanted.  I have one DotNetNuke installation.

I want more than one website.

If I have tv.com (I don't) and shoes.com (again, just examples), but I want them to run off of the same DNN installation, what do I do?

I went in as host and created a new portal.  I made it a parent portal.  I now have two parent portals.

But how do I access the newly created parent portal?  If I create the name of localhost/mynewparentportal as my portal and create a new virtual directory with IIS named mynewparentportal, how can I get DNN to go to the new portal?

Thank you for any help.
 
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1/19/2006 12:43 AM
 
Scott Willhite


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You can get instructions for setting up a portal here: http://dotnetnuke.com/About/DotNetNukeOnlineHelp/tabid/787/TID/52/cid/46/Default.aspx

What DNN does is intercept an HTTP request and resolve which portal to display based on the URL requested.  So if your DNS for shoes.com and tv.com both resolve to this DNN "instance", and you have two portals defined with each of these as their PortalAlias you are done.

This is the model on which DNN was built.  The ability to serve multiple sites ( distinct portals ) from a single account.  The only distinction between a Parent Portal and a Child Portal is the portal alias...

www.domain.com = ParentPortal
www.domain.com/child = Child Portal

You can mimic on a local machine the behavior required to test this by adding entries to your "hosts" file ( c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc ) which match the portal aliases your using in the db.

Scott Willhite, Co-Founder DNN

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