Flash site & DNN
Last Post 11/10/2007 5:15 PM by Joseph Craig. 4 Replies.
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noel
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11/06/2007 5:49 AM  
Hi Can I add to a flash site a DNN site pleas? What I need to do - on my flash site there's going to be a document section, which I made in DNN ... after a visitor clicks on the link in the document section, it should transfer him into an DNN environment where he can log in as an registred user and browse his documents ... Can I accomplish this by creating e.g. a folder at my hosting provider named "DNN". In that folder I make the same steps as Lee makes in the "Transferring DotNetNuke installations localhost_to_live, SQL Find and Replace" (Issue 22) and then simply define the path in my flash site to the folder DNN ? Will then the DNN aplication run itself ? thanks for the help in advance
Joseph Craig
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11/08/2007 6:49 PM  
I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do. Could you please describe this again, and with a little more detail? Please explain the relationship of the sites. Is one site a non-DotNetNuke site?

Joe Craig, Patapsco Research Group
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Joseph Craig
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11/08/2007 6:51 PM  
A "DNN site" will not simple run by itself. You have to set it up as a web site in your IIS server, configure the web.config file, create the database and connect it to DotNetNuke, and you must point a URL at the DotNetNuke site. There are a few other things that you probably also need to do.

Joe Craig, Patapsco Research Group
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noel
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11/09/2007 6:51 PM  

Hi Joe

Well I try to explain it in more detail.
I have a full flash site (the site has nothing to do with DNN). On this site there will be several pages i.e.

about us
services
solutions
clients
contacs
documents

In the section ' documents ' there will be a short description of the type of documents that are available online + there will be a button named "access database" (everything still made using flash)
When a visitor chooses to access the database, after clicking on the button, it should transfer him to the login page of the "DNN site".  The whole "DNN site" will consist of different types of modules, and pages that are dedicated to the document section. To access the "DNN environment" a user needs to login or to register ... so from this point now on we can say that the user is using only DNN. (of course on this site, there will be a link for the navigation back to the flash site).

When I was thinking about the solution (because of the setup that is needed for DNN ~ IIS server, web.config file as you mentioned atc.) - one solution could be following ?

let's say I have registered the domain : company.com (so my website will be www.company.com ~ 4 us newbies ...)
On this domain there's going to be the "flash environment".
When the visitor chooses to access the database (he's still in the flash environment) - the button in the ' document section ' metioned above, will be linked with a domain : documents.company.com (i.e. a subdomain ~ the related site will be www.documents.company.com)
On this subdomain there will be the whole DNN environment installed.

Is this the right solution of the problem ? Do you have any suggestions ?
I appreciate any suggestions that could lead to a simple, elegant solution

Joseph Craig
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11/10/2007 5:15 PM  
That seems the way to do it. You have two web sites installed. If you've set them up correctly, then they will work separately and, with the links, together.

Joe Craig, Patapsco Research Group
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