Hi All,

Am I missing something or is it possible to create multiple parent portals when running DNN in File System mode (e.g not IIS)? If so, can you give me a run through of how to do this please? When I try it I get a page not found error at the end of the "Add new portal" process.

I'm on my development machine so not having to set anything up on a production IIS server at the moment.

Any help is appreciated as I'm having big problems with this?

Regards,

Marcus.

Hi Marcus,

As it happens the next issue for Jan covers portals, aliases, etc.

This is the method I use for adding a second parent portal to a localhost installation in win XP pro.

I have IIS installed on my localhost installation, so perhaps you can adapt this for your setup.

You need to have your system point the url to the dnn installation.

On my setup, I go into Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Internet Information Services, websites, default website, right click this and select new virtual website, click next

enter an alias ie: mynewportal
click on browse and select the location of your DNN installation files
click next, set the permissions you require
click next to complete the wizard

All you need to do now is type in http://localhost/mynewportal

and your DNN installation will pick up that URL (as long as this is the URL you specified for the Parent Portal)

Thanks Lee,

So does this approach also work if the site is running in "File System" mode? My site currently opens a port (1582) on my development machine and runs in there. So the current alias for the default site (taken from the Portal Alias table) is "localhost:3781/TestSite".

What should the alias be of any new parent portals?

Thanks,

 

Marcus

I haven't worked in the 'File System' mode so I can't really provide any advice on how to configure it.

You basically need to somehow add a URL to the 'File System' method such as localhost:3781/Myparentportal which points to the same DNN installation as the localhost:3781/TestSite URL

and then you just use that URL: localhost:3781/Myparentportal as the parent portal URL when creating your parent portal

What are you working on? Are you intending on exporting your work to a livehost at a later date?

You can create a child portal and convert it to a parent portal at a later date if that helps?

Thanks Lee,

I've tried this approach already without any joy I'm afraid. I'm sure this must have been attempted before because the File System mode is the default when you use the Setup Kits. Although I can't find any info on it and I've searched many (Many) articles now.

Do you advise the IIS approach then?

Regards,

Marcus.

It maybe worth posting a question in the main DNN.com forum to see if anyone has any advice.

I use IIS because that was the only option available when I first started using DNN and I've stuck with it because it works for me.

IIS does have the advantage that you don't have to run visual web developer to use DNN, you just navigate to the localhost url and it works. So you may find that it also speeds up your computer with not having to run VWD.