This is probably something *very* basic i'm missing, and more related to IIS setup than DNN, but how do you install DNN such that you can access DNN via the root folder of a website, as opposed to a subfolder?
As far as I can ascertain (from DotNetNuke Install Package Installation Instructions – 052609), the DNN install requires:
1) Installation/copying of application files to a location on target server (not web-facing) – e.g. C:\DotNetNuke
2) Setup a Virtual Folder within the website folder, which points to the DNN folder (e.g. virtual folder created in wwwroot called DotNetNuke\ linking to C:\DotNetNuke)
As such, there doesn’t appear to be any way to have the CMS accessible from the root of an IIS website, as creation of a virtual folder implies that it *must* be a subfolder within the site. Is there something we’re missing, another way to work around this, etc? We'd like to have the CMS accessible from e.g. http://www.domain.com as opposed to http://www.domain.com/dotnetnuke/.
If anyone could point me towards DNN (or IIS!) setup guides on how to achieve this, it would be much appreciated.
We're running on a shared hosting platform so we don't have direct access to IIS settings/IIS Manager, but if I can ascertain how it's achieved we can work out if it's implementable on our platform or not.