For a project in which a DNN site is a component I am running DNN 4.9.0 Starter Kit locally under Visual Web developer 2008 Express. To test the project I need a portal in DNN.

The website template installed succesfully and now I'm trying to create a portal as a child to the site. The link to the portal in the portal creation page doesn't bring me to the portal but I get a HTTP 404 error.  Now I'm trying to find the URL location of the portal but have had no success yet.

The url to DNN on my machine is http:/localhost:1322/mywebsite

The suggested url to the portal is http:/localhost:1322/mywebsite/myportal1

Does anyone have an idea what the URL or perhaps the problem is?

Thanks

Jeffrey

Dear Sebastian,

Thanks for your reply. I've spent some time on it over the weekend and it seems to me that there is an error in the redirect script in the child portal. I've adapted the script somewhat and found tha URL the redirect supplies. This URL doesn't take me to the portal site, it fails in a "site not found " error from the browser.

Below are the the variable values generated by the redirect scripts.

Request URL=http://localhost:1322/DotNetNuke Website1/pinesol/default2.aspx
URL array item 0 =http:
URL array item 1 =
URL array item 2 =localhost:1322
URL array item 3 =DotNetNuke Website1
URL array item 4 =pinesol
URL array item 5 =default2.aspx
ServerPath =/DotNetNuke Website1/
Domain name=/DotNetNuke Website1/Default.aspx?alias=localhost:1322/DotNetNuke Website1/pinesol

Instead the domain name needs to be:
http://localhost:1322/DotNetNuke%20Website1/Default.aspx?alias=localhost:1322/DotNetNuke%20Website1/pinesol 
to get me to the portals pages.
You can see the servers domainname and port have dropped away.
Once in the portal pages navigation is impossible, all site not found errors. Only by direct manipulation of the URL is it possible to get to a login page and so forth.

Is there perhaps a setting that needs to be corrected or could this be an error in the application?

Perhaps the value of the variable "ServerPath" needs to be corrected to include as a prefix http://localhost:1322 ?

Jeffrey

After setting the usePortNumber to true and correcting the portnumber in the PortalAlias tabel it all works well.

Thank you very much for your support.

Jeffrey