I want to create a mobile version of a dotnetnuke website. Now, I have no intention of administrating the website on a mobile phone. I just want to be able to view the pages and modules. The modules, skins and containers will be all specifically designed to render well on a mobile phone. 

Basically I need two seperate 'interfaces' to the dotnetnuke website. One 'web' interface for administrating the site. And another mobile interface to view the pages. My main issues is this: I do not want to use a <form runat="server"> control on the mobile interface. But obviously it is required on the 'web' interface so that all the DNN controls will continue to work.

The general idea is to create a new Mobile.aspx page which performs much the same of the Default.aspx page, but without the DNN:form control. So how do I choose which page should be used when a request comes into the site....

I intend to use www.mycompany.com as the URL for the Website, and m.mycompany.com as the URL for the mobile site. How I should I configure this in IIS etc.... Do I need two seperate DNN installations which access the same database (is this even possible?) ?

Or can I rewrite the incoming request based on the host which the request is accessing?

I do NOT want to rewrite the request based on the User-Agent.

If anyone can provide help on the above problems please let me know....thanks!

-Darragh

BTW: I have looked at the MobiNuke module on snowcovered which goes a long way to solving my problems, but I'd prefer NOT to use 3rd party software if possible.

As far as I know, I would highly recommend looking at MobiNuke, as I think it gets a good portion of what you want, and it will save time and testing as it has already been tested.

You can handle the multiple urls, by just adding an alias in DNN for the other site and then point it in IIS to the same path using a header.

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as i mentioned, i have looked at the mobiNuke module and it is very good. however, i really want to have as much control as possible over the html, doctypes, content-types etc which are output. also i would like to control how mobile devices are detected. for example mobiNuke appears to use WURFL for device properties, but where I work we have our own propriety device database.