I need a simple walkthrough on a dotnetnuke parent portal

[androoo]

Hi
Can someone point me in the direction of a simple walkthrough on a dotnetnuke parent portal.

I just dont seem to get it.
If i create a child portal a sub directory is created in the application. ok.

When i create a parent portal, how do i link the parent url to my installation of dotnetnuke ?
And , can this work on dsap ?
Please explain :)

Post Edited By Moderator (Joel Thoms) : 9/12/2006 8:38:34 PM GMT

[bruce]

you can do a simple redirect


create a page and name it index.asp, put the following in the file


<%
response.redirect("\dnn")

%>


Bruce

DiscountASP.NET
www.DiscountASP.NET (http://www.DiscountASP.NET)

[androoo]

hi bruce


Thanks for your help, i tried the redirect as above but the domain redirected to my host directory.


I have definately added alias in the poral parent i created to match that of the domain im redirecting from.


Do i need to add parameters to the redirect?


When a site redirects it will lose the path in the address bar, and use that of the portal host, is that correct ?
Thanks for help:)


Post Edited (androoo) : 9/13/2006 6:17:31 PM GMT

[bruce]

the redirect should preserve the domain name.. i am not sure why it doesn't do that.

You can also try something like what's described in this kb article, http://kb.discountasp.net/article.aspx?id=10102

Bruce

DiscountASP.NET
www.DiscountASP.NET (http://www.DiscountASP.NET)

[androoo]

Feel like im making progress but still not working.
The target domain im making the portal for: www.somedomain.com (http://www.somedomain.com)
My Portal domain : www.mydsap.com/dnn (http://www.mydsap.com/dnn)

When i redirect from www.somedomain.com (http://www.somedomain.com/)to www.mydsap.com/dnn (http://www.mydsap.com/dnn)the url in the address bar shows :

www.mydsap.com/dnn/ (http://www.mydsap.com/dnn/)www.somedomain.com (http://www.somedomain.com)- this looks like it might be correct ?

The result is a http 404 file not found.

Does that mean its the portal that has the error ?

Thanks for any tips from anyone ...

[joelnet]

copy and paste your redirect statement


Joel Thoms
DiscountASP.NET
http://www.DiscountASP.NET

[androoo]

<%Response.Buffer = True%>
<%Response.Redirect "http://www.excommerce.net/_demo1"% ('http://www.excommerce.net/_demo1"%')>


demo1 is where my dnn installtion exists

when i navigate to www.northwaves.com (http://www.northwaves.com) (which is the site I want to create the portal for) it redirects to www.excommerce.net/demo1 (http://www.excommerce.net/demo1) host account.
Im going crazy on this, has anyone got a url outside of daspto work on a dasp installation of dotnetnuke?

I have gone throught the dotnetnuke forums andcan find nothingrelatedto url redirect.




Post Edited (androoo) : 9/14/2006 8:27:50 PM GMT

[joelnet]

Your redirect seems to be working, when i visitwww.northwaves.com (http://www.northwaves.com)I am redirected to www.excommerce.net/_demo1 (http://www.excommerce.net/_demo1).

This is what you wanted right?


Joel Thoms
DiscountASP.NET
http://www.DiscountASP.NET

[vvsharma]

<%Response.Buffer = True%>
<%Response.Redirect "http://www.excommerce.net/_demo1"% ('http://www.excommerce.net/_demo1"%')>

You are explicitly </o:p>redirecting to excommerce.net/_demo1.If you want DNN to consider www.northwaves.com (http://www.northwaves.com/)as your parent portal ,you have to install DNN on northwaves.com and redirect to the application sub-folder instead.And remember ,install a fresh copy,since DNN modifies its database during installation.

Vikram

DiscountASP.NET
www.DiscountASP.NET (http://www.discountasp.net/)

[androoo]

Thanks for the feedback

The thing is that the redirect is showing the host site (excommerce) not the portal created for www.northwaves.com (http://www.northwaves.com)
DNN doesnt seem to recognise that I have added www.northwaves.com (http://www.northwaves.com) as a parent portal

[androoo]

Thanks for your time Vikram but im still totally lost on this subject.

Disregard the last posts for a moment.
Lets say I have my dnn portal at www.mydsap.com (http://www.mydsap.com)
And i want to create a parent portal at www.mydsap.com/test (http://www.mydsap.com/test)

How do I get www.mydsap.com/test (http://www.mydsap.com/test)to open the parent portal ive created at www.mydsap.com (http://www.mydsap.com/)?
Do i use a redirect script ?
or
Do i alter the http headers under DNS manager?


Many thanks

Andy

Post Edited (androoo) : 9/17/2006 5:30:37 AM GMT

[androoo]

Thanks for coming back to me.

>i don't think you can do that
>DNN is designed to handle multiple domains, for example

>www.domain.com (http://www.domain.com/)
>www.domain2.com (http://www.domain2.com/)

>all handled by the same installation.


great so what is the method i should use to get www.domain.com (http://www.domain.com) / www.domain2.com (http://www.domain2.com) to point to my dnn installtion on dasp?
should i use a redirect script html or asp?
shouldi ask my client to alter the http headers on the host of www.domain.com (http://www.domain.com) ?

Is there a process for this ?
I.e redirect host headers before creating the parent?


On a last note regarding the previous post:

Lets say I have my dnn portal at www.mydsap.com (http://www.mydsap.com/)
And i want to create a parent portal at www.mydsap.com/test (http://www.mydsap.com/test)
And lets say that www.mydsap.com/test (http://www.mydsap.com/test)is configured as an application so i could refer to it as test.mydsap.com

Does that mean i can use this under dasp and dnn as a parent portal?

Thanks for the help here guys.
When im done I promise to post in an article with how ive got this working on dasp.

[bruce]

>Lets say I have my dnn portal at www.mydsap.com (http://www.mydsap.com/)
>And i want to create a parent portal at www.mydsap.com/test (http://www.mydsap.com/test)

i don't think you can do that

DNN is designed to handle multiple domains, for example

www.domain.com (http://www.domain.com)
www.domain2.com (http://www.domain2.com)

all handled by the same installation.

Bruce

DiscountASP.NET
www.DiscountASP.NET (http://www.DiscountASP.NET)

[crusch]

I too have been trying to get my DNN portals to work on DASP and I think I'm close, but still it's not right.


My primary site is www.albertinakerr.org (http://www.albertinakerr.org)


I have added portals www.race4theroses.org (http://www.race4theroses.org) and www.spotlightonkerr.org (http://www.spotlightonkerr.org)


Prior to adding index.asp, my portals all redirected to www.albertinakerr.org (http://www.albertinakerr.org) as expected.


I added index.asp with the redirect code:


<%


response.redirect("\dnn")

%>


When I go to www.race4theroses.org (http://www.race4theroses.org) the site redirects to:


http://www.race4theroses.org/%5Cdnn


I guess I don't quite understand what I should be putting in the response redirect code. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.


Craig

[androoo]

hi Craig

Ididnt get any luck with the response.redirect method.

You will need to buy the unique ip address option from dasp for your primary site www.albertinakerr.org (http://www.albertinakerr.org/)( i think !)

In your dasp control panel you have an option called DNS names
you need to add www.race4theroses.org (http://www.race4theroses.org/) in dns names in your main site www.albertinakerr.org (http://www.albertinakerr.org), this way when the redirect comes to www.albertinakerr.org (http://www.albertinakerr.org/)it knows which dnn portal to point to.

the other step is to alter the dns settings to point www.race4theroses.org (http://www.race4theroses.org) over to www.albertinakerr.org (http://www.albertinakerr.org).

So you need to log into the control panel for www.race4theroses.org (http://www.race4theroses.org/)and make sure that when www.race4theroses.org (http://www.race4theroses.org/) it redirects to the ip address of www.albertinakerr.org (http://www.albertinakerr.org)

If you unsure about changing dns named A records like i am always ask the host, they should help you with this.

I had such a headache getting my head around this, but its worth the effort when you get it working

[bruce]

Can you post your index.asp code?

I went to your sites that are supposed to be Portal Alias and I think you are doing something wrong in the redirect code.

Bruce

DiscountASP.NET
www.DiscountASP.NET (http://www.DiscountASP.NET)