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3/18/2008 12:27 PM
 

I know this is going to sound like such a newbie question, but seeing as I am one, I can live with that.

I have DNN installed (www.sitename/DNN), I can set up a site but for the life of me I can't figure out how to get it to "go live" for lack of better words.  What do I have to do to get the site to display when the user goes to www.sitename.com?  As it is now, all I have there is the EasyCGI "this the future home of" banner.

Secondly, once I get the above addressed, what's the procedure to create a second site and have a different domain name point to it?

Thanks!

 

 
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3/18/2008 4:00 PM
 

have you setup the default page (in IIS) to point to default.aspx? Also, it looks like your site is setup at www.sitename.com/DNN. If that is the case, your users wouldn't be able to see the front page of your DNN site unless they type the same (www.sitename.com/DNN). If you want to set it up as www.sitename.com, you'd have to reset your website (in IIS) to point to the correct folder location (I'm guessing it should point to DNN\Website)...

If you want a different site to point to the same site you've created, you'd have to create the neccessary Portal Alias (go under the admin/Site Settings) and add a new Portal Alias. Make sure you've also setup your firewall, etc to point correctly to the IP address for which you've setup the site...

If you want to create a 2nd site and have a different domain name point to it, you'd have to do either the following

a) Create another portal within the same DotNetNuke database you setup for the 1st site. Log in as host and go to the Host\Portals menu tab to create the new portal. Go through IIS and also setup the new portal correctly - do this step prior to creating the portal from within DotNetNuke.

b) Create another blank database, drop the DotNetNuke files into another folder (like you did for your first site) and setup your new site to be independent of the first one....

Sanjay


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3/18/2008 5:40 PM
 

Now you're getting into things I don't know if I have control of.  Making changes to IIS, would that not be out of my hands given that the site is being hosted by EasyCGI?  As I said, I am new to the whole DNN concept.  I paid for hosting at EasyCGI, they provided me with a DNN installation which I can now work within.  My question is, how do I get to the next step which is to take what I created and let it be publicly used.  I was under the impression that the www.yoursite.com/DNN was the development environment for the web site, which would mean that there must then be a way to take what you developed and "publish it" in some way to accessible to all.  I assume what you are telling me with the IIS changes would apply if I was hosting it.  What if I am not?

In step b) above you mention creating a blank database, dropping DNN files into another folder, etc.  Since I never did this in the first place (I assume this was done by the automated installation script that EasyCGI ran), what do I do given my situation?

 

 
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3/19/2008 10:26 AM
 

Giving us the URL would help us check, but it most likely is set up and working.

www.yoursite.com/DNN is the development environment.  It is also the deployed site.  They are one and the same.  The post above was only if you intend to move the site to the root of your web, and EasyCGI may or may not support that.  The changes would be made in EasyCGI's control panel.

Jeff

 
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3/21/2008 9:56 AM
 

Jeff, there is no doubt it's working.  I can go to www.sitename.com/DNN and the site builder comes up, what I need to know is how to set it so that users don't have to type in that extra /DNN.  All I want is the site to be accessible under www.sitename.com WITHOUT having to go to /DNN.  I checked EasyCGI and I can't find an option to install DNN into the root of the site, it always wants to go to /DNN, so that being the case, what can I change such that a user going to www.sitename.com will end up at the new site?

I can't believe that any user who uses EacyCGI hosting is forced to publish sites where the end user always has to go to /DNN.  There has to be an alternative.  There is likely a simple way to do this but since me knowledge in this field is minimal, I'm hoping there's a simple solution someone can point me at.

Thanks.

 

 
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