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8/6/2009 2:41 PM

Gennadiy Vanin (Геннадий Ванин)

Joined: 2/4/2007

Posts: 53

DNN websites naming?

Does a list of restrictions to names of DNN websites exist?

For ex., /DNN(3 gives the compilation error.
but /DNN(3) works without problems.

Also the DNN websites names starting from digits do not wor

And in working DNN websites during user registration I cannot enter Emails with underline "_" symbol...

How can it be overcome?

8/6/2009 5:34 PM

Alex Shirley

Joined: 1/30/2006

Posts: 5038

Re: DNN websites naming?

Where are you entering this information? Which page/field?

Are you on the latest version of DNN?

8/6/2009 8:34 PM

Gennadiy Vanin (Геннадий Ванин)

Joined: 2/4/2007

Posts: 53

Re: DNN websites naming? Modified By Gennadiy Vanin (Геннадий Ванин) on 8/6/2009 8:39:31 PM

In VS2008
menu File > New > Web site... > ...

And Emails - on the page appearing after clicking Register on DNN website

8/7/2009 2:09 AM

Mitchel Sellers

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Joined: 1/24/2007

Posts: 7846

Re: DNN websites naming?

For the naming of the virtual directories/projects you need fo follow standard naming conventions that are suppored by Visual Studio and IIS. I personally would AVOID using special characters in the site name as well as avoiding spaces.

For the e-mail, be sure that you are using the most current version of DNN.

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8/12/2009 8:59 AM

Gennadiy Vanin (Геннадий Ванин)

Joined: 2/4/2007

Posts: 53

Re: DNN websites naming? Modified By Gennadiy Vanin (Геннадий Ванин) on 8/14/2009 7:49:23 AM

Mitch Sellers wrote

For the naming of the virtual directories/projects you need fo follow standard naming conventions that are suppored by Visual Studio and IIS. I personally would AVOID using special characters in the site name as well as avoiding spaces.

For the e-mail, be sure that you are using the most current version of DNN.

There are no restrictions in IIS or asp.net to have website names starting from digits or having unmatched (unclosed) parenthesis.

It is DNN code that adds or substitues symbols to some characters in website names

Email seems OK (either due to 5.1.1 or because I passed to launch DNN website from Local IIS in VS)
I am also learning yet...

For ex., what, where and how had been corrected that Email started to be expected with underscores "_"?

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