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5/4/2010 9:40 PM
 
Hello all.

I have installed DNN Community on my XP Pro SP3 machine and it worked as expected, I used the Platform installer.  My issue is with creating a new parent portal.  I understand XP Pro will only allow one website.  Using the forums I search for a solution and found several, however non of them seem to work for me, I'm sure I'm just missing a step. I used the instructions from the potral and a DNN blog labled: Using IIS Admin.Net with DNN, found at http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/B....  The new web site is created using this feature, however even though I give my new site a host name of "mysite2.com" only one website is active at a time.  Is that suppose to be the case?  When I use the virtual direcotory option, also on that blog and in the fourms I'm getting prompted for Windows username and password.

Looking in the directory of my virtual I can see where there are files, however no .aspx files are there, mostly .gifs. 

Any thoughts or suggestion of where I messed up?

Thanks,
Bob
 
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5/5/2010 1:04 AM
 
XP will only let you have one active site even with tools like IIS Admin.  There is no difference between a child and parent portal except the URL, so on XP I wouldnt even bother trying to use parent portals.

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5/5/2010 1:53 AM
 
You should be able to add a "virtual directory" in IIS for each site.  Then run each site  ie:  //localhost/SiteA or //localhost/SiteB.

I've done this for development and have had several sites running at the same time.  I don't think I've ever tried to run two sites at the same time thru VS, but I often have a copy of the "old site" open in the browser while I'm working on the "new site" in VS.


 
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5/5/2010 9:16 PM
 
Ok, thought I might have figured it when I relized I wasn't using localhost/mysite2 (was just going to mysite2), but now instead of getting the Windows login box, I just get an HTTP 403 Forbidden.  If I try to add the default.aspx to the end of the url, I get the error message "resouce cannot be found.". 

Since a child portal and parent portal are basically the same thing, then its not really worth the time to troubleshoot.  I had thought that if I applied a Template/Skin to the parent portal it would be inherited by the child, so that was my biggest concern. Since that's not the case and I doubt I'll ever be in a hosting environment similar to what I have, (XP) then I can spend time on something more productive.  

Thanks for the help..
Bob 
 
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