There must be a way to do this, but I’m not seeing it.

I have four web sites: www.mybiz.com, store.mybiz.com, betawww.mybiz.com and betastore.mybiz.com.  The first two are the Production site on one server.  The Beta sites are on the test server.  Users access the www or betawww sites, but they could enter the Store by clicking links.  Currently the sites are totally separate, so the www site links to the Store (and vice versa), and the betawww sites points to betastore.  It’s all hard-coded (and was that way long before I got here).

We’re going to be moving to Content Staging, so I don’t think we can use this setup anymore.  If the Beta site gets published to the Live site, users might accidentally switch between the Live and Beta sites.  Not a good idea.

What I would really like is to have all links in all sites show www.mybiz.com and store.mybiz.com.  Then in the Beta site, DNN would know that any attempt to navigate to store.mybiz.com would redirect to betastore.  Similarly, if you’re in the betastore and attempt to go to www.mybiz.com, it redirects to betawww.mybiz.com.  And even if I could figure out how to get a URL to redirect, I would not want that DNN configuration, itself, to get published.  That has to stay on the beta server, and not get copied to the Live server.

I tried creating a Friendly URL that converted store.mybiz.com to betastore.mybiz.com, but it didn't do anything.  I also considered a dummy web site, with IIS redirecting the URL, but I think that might block anybody from ever getting to the Live site.

So I could use a clue. What else can I try?

Thanks
Dan

Thanks for the suggestions.  However, I decided I needed to change the Urls on the way out, rathar than try to figure out what the user needed after the fact.

We have two ways for links to appear on the screens. One is simply hard-coded in the skins.  I created my own DNN control, based on HyperLink, that looks at Request.Url.Host.  If the link starts with "beta", then the control's NavigateUrl  is set to the betastore Url, etc.

We also have links defined in the HTMLText.Content and TabModules.Header/Footer fields.  I created a new javascript function and added it to dnncore.js.  (Not a great solution, but couldn't figure out any other way to make it accessible to all screens.)  Again, it looks at the current Url and generates the name of the associated store.  I updated all links in the database from href='http://store.mybiz.com' to  href=' GotoStore();'  Generally, that works fine.  My problem now is that whenever I edit the DNN module, it deletes the "javascript" from the HTMLText.content.  Not sure how I'm going to handle that yet.

I'm just posting this in case anyone else has this situation.  If there are other way to do this, I'd be interested to hear.

Cheers
Dan

Hi, which versions of DNN are you on? In DNN 6.1.2 you have the option to switch script removal off in the Host > HTML Editor Manager settings.