My site (www.assisisoft.com) comes up as 'assisisoft1.web144.discountasp.net'. How do I get it to come up as my domain (www.assisisoft.com)? Is this an ISP hosting question or a Dot Net Nuke question? Thanks, Rich
Rich If the alternative url is working, then our hosting system is working fine. To get your domain to resolve to our hosting platform, you will need to update your domain name server. Performing a whois lookup on your domain, the domain registrar is Network Solutions. We have a knowledge base article on how to update the domain name server with Network Solutions. See: http://kb.discountasp.net/article.aspx?id=10045 Eric DiscountASP.NET http://www.DiscountASP.NET
Now you have to wait for the DNS caching period (about a couple days) for the domain to fully resolve to our location. Please review this knowledge base article: http://kb.discountasp.net/article.aspx?id=10155 Eric DiscountASP.NET http://www.DiscountASP.NET
It is already resolving. I did this last week. There is different issue than DNS resolution here. For some reason, your servers are forwarding my domain on to the temp site initially setup. There must be a way for me or you to tell your servers to stop forwarding to that temp site. There should only be www.assisisoft.com attached to my htdocs directory. Rich
Rich I believe you are referring to the Alternative URL. This is an alternative URL for your site - it is always live and resolves to the same location as your domain. If you ever have any issues pulling up your site with your domain, always check with the alternative url so you can tell if it is a domain issue or a site issue. Eric DiscountASP.NET
OK. But why does assisisoft1.web144.discountasp.net show up when I browse to www.assisisoft.com? Rich
Check your code. It appears to be redirecting the user. Eric DiscountASP.NET http://www.DiscountASP.NET
Are you talking about the code: Response.Redirect('/DNN/Default.aspx'); That does not prepend 'assisisoft1.web144.discountasp.net'. Why would that be the answer? Rich
I believe DNN keeps a record of the URL you used during installation. You must have used the temporary URL. There should be a way to change the URL or alias in DNN's admin. Aristotle DiscountASP.NET www.DiscountASP.NET
Your suggestion is noted and we will pass your suggestion onto the staff here. Please note that we did not write or develop DNN. The makers of DNN should be the ultimate source for documentation for their application. Please make sure to let them know about your issues as well. Eric DiscountASP.NET http://www.DiscountASP.NET
I did use the temp URL when DNN was installed. I have added my registered domain (www.assisisoft.com) to the Portal Aliases so both the temp site and my domain are listed now/ However, the temp site alias is the only one ever used and you can't delete it unless you can first run DNN using the domain alias. My ISP says it is with DNN not a forward of theirs. Is ther a way to tell DNN to use the domain alias rather than the older temp alias? Rich
ANSWER. Someone please post this in the KB! You have to enter a Portal Alias in DotNetNuke that has the full domain path to your DotNetNuke install directory. A simple forwarding page in the root is not sufficient. Enter a Portal Alias on the Site Settings page that looks like this: 'www.mydomain.com/dnn' where dnn is the dotnetnuke install directory. Do this and create a forward command in your default root page. Mine has 'Response.Redirect('/DNN/Default.aspx');' in default.aspx.vb. Jesus, someone please doc this stuff better! Rich
