I wish to create a new portal from my DNN installation v. 04.05.05, but don't want it live yet.

How can I get around this?

website:
www.sypensions.org.uk (this is the site to be revamped and pointed to my DNN server - but I don't want to point it to DNN server until I have completed the site.)

I read somewhere that when adding a new portal in DNN host settings "it must already point correctly to your DNN install, otherwise the parent portal creation will fail..."

or perhaps this means - point to it in IIS - creating a virtual directory?


thanks,
mark

Thanks Ian,

I have tried to set up a host header in IIS, but still having problems.

My DNN installation is on a virtual directory called www.sypensions.org.uk/dnn (the first site is working ok), but I can't create another site.

When creating the host header - I can not right click on the name of the virtual directory (which is called dnn) - this is where my dotnetnuke installation points to.

I can only cretae a host header (in IIS 6) from right clicking on the level above (on sypensions.org.uk website).
New host Header called - 'development.sypensions.org.uk'

I then created a new alias also: 'development.sypensions.org.uk'

When I visit www.development.sypensions.org.uk - I get an error:
"430 Not found, Unable to resolve name"

I also tried development.sypensions.org.uk/dnn as an alias, but this does not work either.

 Any ideas?

regards,
mark.

Thanks. I created a new website in IIS and checked for the 3 things mentioned above(default.aspx,asp.net2.0 etc).

I was still unable to connect to the new site.

I am thinking that the problem is due to our firewall perhaps? This mabe why I could only get DNN working in a subfolder of our internet in IIS.

The only way I could get a new site created was to create a new virtual directory in the same IIS subfolder as our original dotnetnuke site with the same path (not sure if this makes sense.)

I then created a new parent portal in DNN with the following address: www.sypensions.org.uk/development/ (our first DNN site was: www.sypensions.org.uk/dnn if you were thinking it looks like a child site).

I realise you advised against the 'virtual directory' method - but I couldn't get it working any other way. And if it works, is there any real problem with the way it has been set up - using virtual directories?

mark.