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11/5/2008 12:56 PM
 
Ade Hall

Joined: 11/4/2008
Posts: 8

I have a DNN portal hosted at www.mydnnportal.com and all is working well. I want to be able to create a child portal and be able to browse it via the url www.mychildportal.com. I'm using a shared hosting account for www.mydnnportal.com. www.mychildportal.com has only just been registered and hasn't even had nameservers set. I can understand the configuration in DNN but I don't know what I should do via my hosting account (which uses Helm) and what to do with nameservers etc. Some guidance would be very much appreciated.

 
 
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11/5/2008 1:37 PM
 
Joao Beltrao

Joined: 4/23/2005
Posts: 70

I'm assuming that the registrar with which you registered the domains is also providing you with name resolution (aka DNS server). So you should configure your new domain with the DNS servers provided by the company where you registered the domain.

You also need to tell the DNS server itself the IP address that it should point to. Now, if your web hosting provider gave you an IP address all of your own, you should point to that - or to put it another way tell the DNS server to point to the IP address of your first DNN portal.

Next you need to tell the web server of your web hoster to "accept" your new domain and "route" web requests to the directory where you have your DNN installation. Go to your web hosting provider's control panel and find your way to the "domains" section and add your new domain as an "alias" do your first one.

If you configure your DNN portals/alias stuff right all should work.

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11/5/2008 2:54 PM
 
Jeff Cochran


Joined: 6/3/2005
Posts: 2799

[QUOTE]Ade wrote
 

I have a DNN portal hosted at www.mydnnportal.com and all is working well. I want to be able to create a child portal and be able to browse it via the url www.mychildportal.com.[/QUOTE]

First, that's a parent portal, not a child portal.  A child portal would be mydnnportal.com/childportal.  But that's really the only difference to DNN.  In the DNS record for the new domain, you need a host record (A) pointing to the IP address of your web site for the www record and for a blank record.  Then in DNN, when you create the parent portal, give it the alias of www.mychildportal.com and add another alias for mychildportal.com.  Noramlly your hosting service doesn't need to do anything.

Jeff
 
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