I need a simple walkthrough on a dotnetnuke parent portal

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

 

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

 

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

When i redirect from www.somedomain.comto www.mydsap.com/dnnthe url in the address bar shows :

www.mydsap.com/dnn/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 ...

 

copy and paste your redirect statement


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

 

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


demo1 is where my dnn installtion exists

when i navigate to www.northwaves.com (which is the site I want to create the portal for) it redirects to 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

 

Your redirect seems to be working, when i visitwww.northwaves.comI am redirected to www.excommerce.net/_demo1.

This is what you wanted right?


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

 

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

You are explicitly </o>redirecting to excommerce.net/_demo1.If you want DNN to consider www.northwaves.comas 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

 

Thanks for the feedback

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

 

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
And i want to create a parent portal at www.mydsap.com/test

How do I get www.mydsap.com/testto open the parent portal ive created at 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

 

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
>www.domain2.com

>all handled by the same installation.


great so what is the method i should use to get www.domain.com / 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 ?

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
And i want to create a parent portal at www.mydsap.com/test
And lets say that www.mydsap.com/testis 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.

 

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


I have added portals www.race4theroses.org and www.spotlightonkerr.org


Prior to adding index.asp, my portals all redirected to www.albertinakerr.org as expected.


I added index.asp with the redirect code:


<%


response.redirect("\dnn")

%>


When I go to 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

 

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( i think !)

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

the other step is to alter the dns settings to point www.race4theroses.org over to www.albertinakerr.org.

So you need to log into the control panel for www.race4theroses.organd make sure that when www.race4theroses.org it redirects to the ip address of 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