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9/24/2010 6:50 PM
 
I work for a membership management software company (www.chambermaster.com).  We provide web modules which our clients can then connect with their websites by creating a template page (any file type) which resides on their server and then is cached by our server.  When the module (directory, events calendar, etc...) is requested from our server we deliver the content and wrap it in the template file. 

We have several customers using DotNetNuke who have asked if there is a way to integrate the content into their websites without using iframes (historically this has been the only way).   Since the release of our new asp based SEO friendly modules earlier this year, we have been able to use our template page method for integration with many CMS programs including Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, Asp.net Community Starter Kit, as well as several other PHP and ASP based CMS programs. 

To assist some clients with the integration process, I installed a basic DNN framework on one of our servers and attempted to get it going with our new SEO friendly modules.

An issue arises when the links in the template page are relative links rather than absolute because the browser tries to locate the resources on our server rather than on the web server where the template page resides. 

In DNN I added a base href tag to the default.aspx so that links, images and linked css files are picked up from the correct server.   However, it appears that some of the scripts or server commands are not being covered by the base href.

I am impressed with the DNN framework and can see how flexible it is, so I imagine that there is a way to accomplish this goal.  Could someone get me pointed in the right direction for a way to force the application to write absolute urls in all cases?  Or is there a way that I should be doing this through skinning?

Here are links to my work so far:

*Notice that the navigation is not "shiny" and the spacing between the page elements is "off".

Further documentation about our integration process can be found at http://kb.chambermaster.com/?page_id=12

Any thoughts or assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Sam Couture
Web Solutions Support
ChamberMaster
www.chambermaster.com
 
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9/27/2010 11:19 AM
 
Some of this you could most likely fix with the skin and hard coding, but not necessarily all of it.

DNN is not designed for this type of cross domain content hosting.

-Mitchel Sellers
Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, DNN MVP
CEO/Director of Development - IowaComputerGurus Inc.
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4/1/2011 3:17 PM
 
Sam --- Were you able to get Chambermaster templates to work in DNN? I am working on a project right now to integrate Chambermaster into DNN. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Mark
 
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4/4/2011 12:59 PM
 
Hi Mark,

We have not been able to successfully integrate DNN with ChamberMaster using the template method.

I do still think it can be done - perhaps a script could be written that would dynamically rewrite all relative src and href attributes as absolute URL's on given pages but doing this in ASP (or even js) is well beyond my expertise.

I am open to working with you on this if you want to pursue this or any other ideas you might have about making CM and DNN work together for the template method of integration.

You can contact me via support@chambermaster.com or 800-825-9171
 
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