I'm brand new to DNN and the answers to my questions might seem obvious. 

Background:  I have a site hosted at GoDaddy.  The url is www.jdccons.com.  I installed DNN from the applications available at GD.  It was installed in a separate folder under the root i.e. www.jdccons.com/dotnetnuke.  I can start up DNN by opening the default page there.  I want to use DNN as a CMS to my existing site.  I don't know how to configure DNN to work with all of the objects etc. in my existing site.  The pages in the existing site were built with Visual Studio 2005.  The site is an ASP.NET 2.0 site with a SQL Server 2005 database.  The name of the database is QCD.  I believe the DNN installion created a second database for DNN. 

Questions:  How do I configure DNN to manage the objects in my existing site?  What will happen to my pages?  They have a master page and CSS apart from DNN.  What will happen to that?  There is database functionality in its own database i.e. QCD.  What will happen to that?  There is a JavaScript menu in the master page.  What will happen to that?

John

John Criswell

It looks like you have 2 ways to do a bridge between your ASP.NET site and DotNetNuke:

1) Do you use any ASP.NET core providers? For example Membership? You can look into the DB of your site and check is there any table from this list? "aspnet_Applications, aspnet_Users, aspnet_SchemaVersions, aspnet_Membership, aspnet_Profile, aspnet_Roles, 
aspnet_UsersInRoles" If you do not have any of these tables inside of your DB, then you can install DotNetNuke into the same database, but with objectQualifier specified. You can specify it at the DB Settings page in Wizard. It is prefix to all DNN objects. In this case both sites will use the same DB. But as for me it is not good idea and better to do #2

2) Make DNN installation into the different DB. Add to the web.config required connection strings and work with it.

For both situations: #1 and #2 your site works like independent site and DNN site works like independent site.

Sergey