How to create DotNetNuke Portals (Parent and Child)

By Lee Sykes

January 2007

In these 3 video tutorials we demonstrate how to create DotNetNuke portals.

We walk you through the processes required for adding a portal to a live DotNetNuke website. This covers creating a parent portal using a domain and sub-domain name, as well as creating a child portal.

Before continuing with this tutorial, we recommend that you read this article first:
DotNetNuke and Multiple Portals to fully understand how DotNetNuke portals work.

The videos cover:

Video 1 - Introduction, creating a parent portal

Introduction and concepts
Working with portals on a live website
Viewing a list of the current portals in the DotNetNuke installation
How to add a second portal with a unique domain name
Setting the DNS settings (Nameserver settings) with the Domain Name registrar to point to the Hosting Providers server
How to configure the Host Header settings to point the new domain name to the IP address of the DotNetNuke installation on the Hosting Provider
How to create a new parent portal in DotNetNuke
Portal Alias
Home directory, location of folders and using customized folders

Time Length: 9min 34secs

Video 2 - Administering and configuring the portals

How to set the title, description and keywords for a portal
Selecting a content template to use for the portal
How to create an administrator account for the new portal
Viewing www.audiotuition.co.uk and http://audiotuition.co.uk
Logging in as administrator to audiotuition.co.uk
Viewing the Site Settings, Title, Description, Keywords
Logging in as Host Super User
Viewing the portals
How to easily administer all of the portals at the same time
How to view the number of users registered to a portal, the disk space used, hosting fee and expiry date
How to edit the site settings for each portal
Viewing the portal folder that DotNetNuke creates