I am confused as to what I can do with a portal alias and child vs. parent portals. I have 3 domain names that I want to host on GoDaddy as separate portals - e.g. www.portalone.com, www.portaltwo.com and www.portalthree.com (planA) and would like these to be part of the same DNN site. Is this possible? Is there a way to do this with 301 redirects rather than 302 redirects as I have read the 302 is disliked by search engines? Not sure how a GoDaddy domain alias works exactly but I curently alias www.portaltwo.com to www.portalone.com/portaltwo/default.aspx which works for me reasonably well now. I am not using DNN on GoDaddy yet.

Or must I support my 3 websites as www.portal.com/one, www.portal.com/two and www.portal.com/three (planB)? I also would prefer the first unique domain scheme planA rather than one.portal.com, two.portal.com and three.portal.com (planC) which does seem to be possible per the doc as an alternative to the planB subdirs as I don't want to share a single main domain for reasons of branding purposes et al.

If the first planA strategy of 3 unique domains on one DNN site is possible, I don't see any means to implement this on my local machine which necessarily has a URL of localhost so would also appreciate any suggestions on how one would develop three unique domain name portals on a local machine and then upload them to a hosting provider.

Would appreciate a general outline of how to do the unique domain name planA if possible or a brief explanation of why not if it is not possible.

I am an expert Windows desktop and server developer and am pretty familiar with IIS web technology in general but web applications and DNS issues are not my area of expertise.

Thanks much, Dave Kolb

Yes I have questions. If PlanA is possible, that I can have one DNN site for 3 unique portal domain names, my questions are:

1. How do I develop this on my local host since I only have one unique domain name there?
2. Could you give me a bit of an outline on how to proceed within DNN?
3. Is a GoDaddy URL alias sufficient to map a 2nd and 3rd unique domain to the site hosting by the first domain? Iow, do I merely alias www.portaltwo.com to www.portalone.com?

The benefits of GoDaddy shared hosting are lots of disk space and transfer bandwidth for very cheap and resonable performance. On the other hand their support is not very good but I could easily see that elsewhere as well. I have tried putting a single portal at GoDaddy without success so far by uploading my local portal files with a new web.config file. Installation starts but then fails with an unhandled exception after a complaint that portal 0 already exists but how else would one upload a localhost portal to put it into production?

Do you have a hosting service to recommend that better supports DNN as well as being inexpensive?

Thanks, Dave