I finally got DNN up and running, and think it's slick.
I created 2 new parent portals, but cannot connect to either of them. I tried every imaginable combination of aliasing, forwarding, etc. I simply can find no way to connect to any portal except the default one. If I forward or alias to the portal's location (a folder under DNN folder with the portal's name) I get nothing. I placed a bare HTML file there and I can hit it, or if I delete it I get nothing. I tried aliasing and forwarding to the DNN folder, but I get the base (portal 0 default) site. (I thought I read somewhere that DNN could tell which domain name was 'incoming' and decode it..) I tried masking, but DNN seems to strip the mask away and displays the same base DefaultDomain/dotnetnuke path.
If I check the files in the 'new' portal folders there are a bunch of gifs, a portal.css file containing only css styles, and a template folder and a _hcc_thumbs folder. Nothing to even run there...
I'm no expert at this, but I'm not a novice either. At this point I'm best described as clueless. I'm beginning to think GoDaddy doesn't permit portals...
In essence, "How do I pass the portal name or ID to DNN?" I'll try anything. Keep in mind that via GoDaddy I can access the database or the site files but not anything else (like the servers or anything outside my little GoDaddy 'empire').
This is not urgent since I've obviously not been able to accomplish much to waste and I have multiple hosting accounts that I can use individually, for now...