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buc2
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27 Jun 2008 12:05 PM  

I am new to DotNetNuke and I am attempting to install the latest version on a GoDaddy hosted account.

I've read the forum posting about installing onto a GoDaddy account and found it helped a great deal however, I can't seem to get beyond the connection string to the database without something being wrong.

I've made so many changes at this point I don't know what is right anymore.

Below is my latest attempt at changing the web.config file and adding the connection string to my database but, I continue to get an error as follows:

Invalid value for key 'attachdbfilename'.

Below is the part of the web.config file that I have changed to include the connection string.  I don't understand what is wrong with it...bigger still...I have no idea of where to go to find an answer.

 
 
 
 
                          
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Can anyone see what I have done wrong and give some type of guidance as to how I should set this so it will work?

thank you,
jncraig
Nuke Master II
Nuke Master II
Posts:2002
28 Jun 2008 11:32 AM  
You probably included some tags in your posting of the web.config. If you make sure that there are spaces before and after any < or > then it should post ok.

I would hope that the folks at godaddy could help with this. If not, maybe you could give Danica Patrick a phone call!

But, if you'll try posting that again, we can probably help, too.
Joe Craig
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leesykes
Nuke Master II
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01 Jul 2008 5:48 AM  
- also you can attach files in the forum, so you could attach a zip file with your code
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aggiedan97

Posts:20
16 Jul 2008 12:12 PM  
Let me start by saying I've been a Godaddy hosting customer for several years and equally frustrated with the shortcomings and apparent unwillingness to assist paying customers. It's a remarkable business model ~which goes to show the resilience of the company you keep. Nevertheless, I have a great discovery that I felt compelled to share with regards to the Godaddy hosting sub-directory debacle. This also leads to an issue that I am sure several of you bright folks will be able to assist or point me to an existing article/tutorial Lee has published.

The details of the following and the source of my information can be found at the following link: http://help.godaddy.com/topic/173/article/4067#adddomain

I have implemented the contents of this Help Article and can attest to its success. The end result is to have 'myweb.com/dnn' point to a sub-folder '/dnn' without displaying it in the URL resulting in only 'mydomain.com'

Word-to-the-wise: Changing your domain name takes up to 24 hours to complete and potentially longer to propagate name servers.

(Again, the detailed steps are listed in the above link.)

Step 1: Remove web access to the root directory of your hosting domain (myweb.com)
Under the Domain Management settings, change the Primary Domain on Hosted Site to a non-real domain name: myweb-nonroot.com (for example)

***Take a 24 hour coffee break***

Step 2: Enter an alias for your new non-real domain name (myweb-nonroot.com) as the original domain name: myweb.com.
Enter the Domain Hosting Path of the sub-folder /dnn.

Once this change is effective you can navigate to myweb.com and it will resolve to the /dnn sub directory without presenting it in the URL. Yea - finally something I have tried and it appears to work great...with one minor issue.

My original site was originally initiated with the /dnn extension and my default portal is registered in my DotNetNuke installation as myweb.com/dnn and I have registered a portal alias of myweb.com.

Every link and menu still references the myweb.com/dnn path. Therefore, if you can guide me to how to change the default to myweb.com instead of myweb.com/dnn, I believe this is a workable solution.

Regards
jncraig
Nuke Master II
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17 Jul 2008 8:50 AM  
Thanks for the information.
Joe Craig
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leesykes
Nuke Master II
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17 Jul 2008 11:26 AM  
If you want to change URLs in the Text / HTML module you could use SQL find and replace, this may help:
Find and Replace SQL queries for DotNetNuke
Lee Sykes
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aggiedan97

Posts:20
17 Jul 2008 1:32 PM  
Thanks for the suggestion.

I am actually referencing the default portal sub-directory that was used when the site was initialized, /dnn.  Another example would be when selecting a page (on this site) in the links module.   All of the site pages are qualified as 'http://myweb.com/dnn/forum/default.aspx', for example.  Now that I have removed the .../dnn from my hosting URL reference, I would like to have dnn follow suit.
jncraig
Nuke Master II
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Posts:2002
17 Jul 2008 8:04 PM  
For replacing text in Text/HTML modules, Engage Software's free F3 module can't be beat. It's prettymuch wysiwyg and you can accept/reject changes individually.
Joe Craig
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aggiedan97

Posts:20
18 Jul 2008 11:35 PM  
Does anyone have any experience with hosting multiple domains on a single dnn portal @ Godaddy? I have never had success with multiple parent portals through Godaddy. I have attempted to utilize domain aliases and still nothing. Just curious if anyone has had success with this.

Thanks,
Dan
greenflash
Nuke Active Member
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Posts:27
19 Jul 2008 1:23 AM  
Hello aggiedan97, i have experience hosting multiple domains under a single dnn portal, for Godaddy or any other supported hosting company.

If you are interested you can contact me.
DotNetNuke Help for beginners
aggiedan97

Posts:20
04 Aug 2008 9:38 AM  
Brief update: I have solved all my hosting issues and it took all of 10 minutes! 

How you ask? 

I moved my hosting to PowerDNN and dropped GoDaddy like a bad habit.  I currently support half a dozen or so sites independently that I have setup @ GoDaddy and I will be moving them all so I only have to support a single portal and multiple sites.

 Me thinks this is going to save me lots of time!

Thanks everyone for your input - and for those of you who continue to use GoDaddy for DNN hosting... you can always take pleasure remembering that you can burn upwards of 150 calories a day banging your head against the wall.
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