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11/4/2008 1:38 PM
 
Dave Ingraham


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Joined: 5/24/2006
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Hello,
My company would like to redesign our DNN corporate website. This would include not only updating the look with new skins/containers, but also changing the basic site structure. IMO, this would require setting up a dev site and starting from scratch, then copying the new site back over the old site. The problem is that we built a child portal that has become hugely popular with our customers. This child portal gets daily updates from internal resources, and is linked from several online software products that my company produces. Because of this, we can't take it offline, or even change the url without seriously impacting our customers.

Does anyone have any advice on how I can update the parent portal (from the ground up), without impacting the child portal? Any and all advice is welcome.

Thanks,
Dave
 
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11/5/2008 4:44 AM
 
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depending on the user based content in your web site you need to keep (forum posts, user accounts, etc) you might either choose to create the new pages in a (publically hidden) branch of your existing web site, which you move to top for switching or you create a new portal WITHIN the same installation (having new user accounts) on a temporary domain address, you prepare this one as you would like and for the switch you rename the existing web site alias to old.yourdomain.com and add original domain name to the new portal.

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11/5/2008 4:52 PM
 
Dave Ingraham


www.ghx.com
Joined: 5/24/2006
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Sebastian Leupold wrote

depending on the user based content in your web site you need to keep (forum posts, user accounts, etc) you might either choose to create the new pages in a (publically hidden) branch of your existing web site, which you move to top for switching or you create a new portal WITHIN the same installation (having new user accounts) on a temporary domain address, you prepare this one as you would like and for the switch you rename the existing web site alias to old.yourdomain.com and add original domain name to the new portal.

Thanks Sebastian. This was very helpful.

Few more questions:

1. If I choose to create a new portal within the same install, would I set it up as a parent or child portal?
2. Can you have more than one parent portal in the same install?
3. If I have to set it up as a child portal, will I be able to remove the old parent portal from my server or will that always need to stay?

BTW - We are still using DNN v 4.3.7
 
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11/20/2008 12:34 PM
 
Dave Ingraham


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Never mind. I figured it out myself.
 
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