I host with Godaddy for convenience. I know it's not ideal, but my sites aren't things that businesses run off of... they're just community/organization sites that don't require a ton of features.

Anyway, I was getting annoyed with the fact that Godaddy DNN sites always adds the virtual root as a subdirectory... for example, if you already have a hosting account (ie. www.myoldhostingaccount.com) and want to install DNN in a subdirectory (i.e. www.myoldhostingaccount.com/myNEWsite).... and then redirect www.myNEWsite.com to that directory as the site's root, it would go to www.myNEWsite.com/myNEWsite instead of just www.myNEWsite.com

Here's how you can get around it.

1. In your webconfig, change to the following:

<add key="HostHeader" value="/myNEWsite" />
    <!-- Host Header to remove from URL so "www.mydomain.com/johndoe/Default.aspx" is treated as "www.mydomain.com/Default.aspx" -->
    <add key="RemoveAngleBrackets" value="true" />

2. In your database, find the PortalAlias table and change "www.myNEWsite.com/myNEWsite" to "www.myNEWsite.com"

Now your site should get rid of the subdirectory. Hope this helps someone...

ok, i take my last comment back...when i restarted IIS...and i choose to go to //localhost/ it takes me to blank page!!

I also tried this solution and it failed to strip out the "/dotnetnuke" out of my url. Below is the portion of my webconfig that I changed as you specified in the last post.

<add key="HostHeader" value="/dotnetnuke" />
        <!-- Host Header to remove from URL so "www.mydomain.com/johndoe/Default.aspx" is treated as "www.mydomain.com/Default.aspx" -->
        <add key="RemoveAngleBrackets" value="true" />
<add name="DNNFriendlyUrl" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Url.FriendlyUrl.DNNFriendlyUrlProvider, DotNetNuke.HttpModules" includePageName="true" regexMatch="[^a-zA-Z0-9 _-]" urlformat="HumanFriendly" />

Any ideas?

Also, do you have a running website that has this method successfully applied? If so, I would like to visit the site.