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3/31/2008 5:53 AM
 
playah

Joined: 5/30/2007
Posts: 18

I have installed DNN in a subfolder of my domain, because at first i couldn't get it to work in the root.

But now i want the installation to be in the root of my domain, i don't want to see http://www.domain.com/dnn/default.aspx but www.domain.com/default.aspx

I currently us a frameset to hide the  "dirty" url, but this is not good for search engines.

I tried adding a portal alias:  www.domain.com . the default is www.domain.com/dnn .

copied the files to the root, but then the site won't work.

can anybody help me with this, or point me to a guide or something. Forum search isn't working....

ps. the site has lots of pages and content already and I don't want to lose this. thanks.

 
 
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3/31/2008 8:59 AM
 
Jeff Cochran


Joined: 6/3/2005
Posts: 2799

playah wrote

copied the files to the root, but then the site won't work.

Man, I hate those "won't work" errors.  Did you try the "Now Works" patch?

Seriously, what "won't work" here?  Did you configure the alias correctly?

Jeff
 
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3/31/2008 12:56 PM
 
Yehuda Tiram


Joined: 12/3/2004
Posts: 362

The location of the installation has nothing to do with the portal alias.

What matters is the way the server points to the installation location regarding that alias.

Hence, in the first place you could set the server point to the oroiginal folder for the site (the portal alias without /dnn/ addition)

Now, after moving the installation to the new location do the following:

1. change the alias in the DB (just chaneg the text in the portal alias table) to the one you want (I presume you have acces to the DB)

2. Change the pointer in the server for the new name to the new location

Is it localhost?

Yehuda Tiram
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4/1/2008 5:03 AM
 
playah

Joined: 5/30/2007
Posts: 18

Jeff Cochran wrote

 playah wrote

 

copied the files to the root, but then the site won't work.

Man, I hate those "won't work" errors.  Did you try the "Now Works" patch?

Seriously, what "won't work" here?  Did you configure the alias correctly?

Jeff

LOL.... sorry, but that was from an earlier post:

When I copied the source files to the webserver, I copied them directly in the root of the website. This seemed to cause the error.

When I first created a folder and copied the files in that folder and created a new virtual folder (and created an application from it), the site works fine.

 I looked in the Default.aspx.vb fie and in this section:

           ' error loading skin - load default
            If ctlSkin Is Nothing Then
                ' could not load skin control - load default skin
                If IsAdminSkin(PortalSettings.ActiveTab.IsAdminTab) Then
                    PortalSettings.ActiveTab.SkinSrc = Common.Globals.HostPath & SkinInfo.RootSkin & glbDefaultSkinFolder & glbDefaultAdminSkin
                Else
                    PortalSettings.ActiveTab.SkinSrc = Common.Globals.HostPath & SkinInfo.RootSkin & glbDefaultSkinFolder & glbDefaultSkin
                End If
                ctlSkin = LoadSkin(PortalSettings.ActiveTab.SkinSrc)
            End If

The ctlSkin object was still 'nothing' after the IF. Seems like the variable 'PortalSettings.ActiveTab.SkinSrc', pointed to /Portals/_Default....' and that file could not be loaded.

I checked with my local install (with a virtual folder) and there the variable was:

'/DotnetNuke/Portals/_default/....'

So that was the only difference in the entire install, and obviously was the problem all the time. I think when installing in the root the first / should be removed. So '/Portals/... ' would become 'Portals/...'.

 

 
 
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4/1/2008 5:07 AM
 
playah

Joined: 5/30/2007
Posts: 18

Hi,

The location of the installation has nothing to do with the portal alias.

What matters is the way the server points to the installation location regarding that alias.

Hence, in the first place you could set the server point to the oroiginal folder for the site (the portal alias without /dnn/ addition)

I tried to add an extra portal alias. This is the same but without /dnn, so e.g. : mydomain.com/dnn ->add alias mydomain.com.

Or what do you mean by  "set the server to point to", in IIS ? or DNN?

Now, after moving the installation to the new location do the following:

1. change the alias in the DB (just chaneg the text in the portal alias table) to the one you want (I presume you have acces to the DB)

As I added an alias this would be already in the table...? Does this matter?

2. Change the pointer in the server for the new name to the new location

Which pointer do you mean here again? IIS? It is not localhost, mydomain.com , it is on a shared web server.

 

 
 
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