I've developed a DNN site on a local IIS system whereby the address of my DNN site is http://localhost/mec. I'm now trying to move this onto a production IIS server whereby the site will be a separate website using host headers.

I've copied c:\DotNetNuke\MEC across to the production system. I've created an IIS 6 website called MEC, set-up host header and pointed it at the folder. DNS is all set-up so that http://mec.milkshakeweb.co.uk points to this new website.

However, when I load up http://mec.milkshakeweb.co.uk it redirects to http://localhost/mec which doesn't exist. I know a bit about aliases and I'm sure that maybe an alias will help here but:

1. http://localhost/mec will never resolve to the website on this production server. http://localhost is the default web site but I'm trying to use a completely separate site
2. I temporarily added a localhost/mec virtual directory just so I could log on. I see that the default portal is still http://localhost/mec which doesn't look right
3. I can't edit http://localhost/mec and even if I could, I'm not sure what to change it to :-)
4. The website and host headers are working. I added a test.htm to the website and I can open http://mec.milkshakeweb.co.uk/test.htm so the host headers and DNS are working fine
5. I tried adding mec.milkshakeweb.co.uk as an alias but that doesn't work

If I maybe understood how DNN is using the alias table, I might be able to work out how to fix this.

Cheers, Rob.

Hi Rob,

You are correct... it is definitely an issue with your portal aliases. Go to Portals, then select the main portal, and create a new portal alias. Enter:

mec.milkshakeweb.co.uk

as the portal alias. And it should work fine. You will need to do this BEFORE you upload the site, otherwise you won't be able to get into the site to make the change. I think you can add it directly in SQL if you don't want to re-upload... I don't recall the name of the table, but I remember it being pretty obvious.

Robert

Thanks for that - messing around with the application pool worked a treat. In the end, I created a new application pook for DNN (it was actually sharing the same pool as the default web site) and it's leapt into action.

Cheers, Rob.

PS. Hmm, wonder why I'm not getting notifications from here - time to check spam I think.