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12/10/2010 8:32 AM
 
Hello,

Can someone please explain the difference between creating a new parent portal and creating a new child portal. We are looking to create a tourism website in addition to our main website and I am not sure if I should make it a parent portal or a child portal.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Matt Sabatello
 
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12/10/2010 8:40 AM
 
the only difference is the url: a parent portal is usually installed in the root of a web site, i.e. www.mydomain.com or dnn.mydomain.com, while a child portal is "residing" in a subfolder www.mydomain.com/child. Child domains have no access to parent users, roles or content.

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

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12/10/2010 8:52 AM
 
Great! Thanks for your informative and quick response! I am going with a parent portal because we want a separate domain for this website and don't want www.maindomain.com/childname.

My domain for my main website is www.brookhaven.org ... could I create a new parent portal of www.brookhaventourism.com and also make this partent portal accessible by browsing to www.brookhaven.org/tourism or do I have to choose one or the other? I understand if the folder is created in the root it will be its own domain and if it is "residing" in a subfolder of a parent portal it will be a the main domain forward slash child portal name.

Thanks again!
 
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12/10/2010 9:28 AM
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you should use either or - but in fact, the child portal creates a physical folder with a redirect. if you create www.brookhaven.org/tourism, add portal alias www.brookhaventourism.com, remove the child portal and modify the redirect in /touorism/default.aspx to www.brookhaventourism.com, you will achieve, what you are looking for :)

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

dnnWerk - The DotNetNuke Experts   German Spoken DotNetNuke User Group

Speed up your DNN Websites with TurboDNN
 
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12/15/2010 10:28 AM
 
Awesome! Thank you so much for this helpful information! This is exactly the information I was looking for!
 
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