OK I'm finally starting to understand portals in 4.0.3 being a nuke newbie.

I see that if I create portal X under DotNetNuke_2 (main virtual directory I setup) a subfolder called X exists with a default.aspx file.

I can see this portal behaves pretty much like a stand alone website.

On my windows XP Pro setup I see the DotNetNuke folder as:
http://localhost/DotNetNuke_2
and X portal as
http://localhost/DotNetNuke_2/x

Going to the portal it redirects thus:
http://localhost/DotNetNuke_2/Default.aspx?alias=localhost/dotnetnuke_2/x

Fine in my development environement... (although I would like to improve on this).

My question is how do I set up this portal with a friendlier URL when it goes live? I'm gonna need something better when in gets on the main server. I guess I could alias the first part of the URL but how could I cover up http://localhost/DotNetNuke_2/ altogether with a decent URL that would persist? I basically would want the sites to look as if they are not related to each other.

Many thanks

Alex

Great thanks, I'll try it out when it's all up and running.

Alex