My site (www.assisisoft.com) comes up as "assisisoft1.web144.discountasp.net".

How do I get it to come up as my domain (www.assisisoft.com)?

Is this an ISP hosting question or a DNN question?

Thanks,

Rich

Hello,

This is probably a bit of both. Go to the admin menu / site settings
scroll down to PortalSettings
is your domain listed here?

If not add your domain name as a portal alias (do not include http://)

Then ensure that your domain name points to your DotNetNuke installation with your domain names DNS settings.

If you are still having problems than it would be worth contacting your hosting provider to see if they can provide any tips.

Hope this helps,

Thanks.  I've never seen that setting.  Never scrolled down far enough I guess. 


Now I've got:

	HTTP Alias
	assisisoft1.web144.discountasp.net/dnn
	www.assisisoft.com

What is the meaing of the first alias?  Should it be deleted?  How?  It is the one that is still showing up in the adress bar.

Is there more indepth docs on this (and related issues) on the web somewhere?

Rich

Hello,

You can only delete that alias when you are viewing your portal with the domain name of www.assisisoft.com

- when you do that you will find there is a pencil icon next to this domain name assisisoft1.web144.discountasp.net/dnn

I would speak to your hosting provider to enquire why it is forwarding to assisisoft1.web144.discountasp.net/dnn when you enter www.assisisoft.com

Thanks,

My host is saying this is a coding issue and shutting off my requests. This is DiscountASP by the way.

I first set up DNN when all I had was temp site access (assisisoft1.web144.discountasp.net). So DNN must have set all its internal references to that site address. It's supposed to disappear after going live, which I take to mean switching to their DNS servers. I am on their DNS servers and www.assisisoft.com resolves fine. But it looks to me that their servers are internally forward to the temp site.

I know this sounds outside of DNN, but is it correct that what should happen is www.assisisoft.com should resolve directory to the web site directory and the temp site be deleted?

Or is it that DNN has the temp site address stored in too many places to change now? I would think that the Portal Settings is the one place that says, prepend this address "www.assisisoft.com" to the start of all requests. If so, then it is still an ISP problem.

Rich

Wait, Isn't this a DNN issue after all? Isn't DNN prepending the "assisisoft1.web144.discountasp.net" onto the requests? No matter how you access "default.aspx" it comes back with "assisisoft1.web144.discountasp.net" prepended because DNN prepends it. No?

Rich

ANSWER.  Yes its a DOtNetNuke issue:

You have to enter a Portal Alias in DotNetNuke that has the full domain path to your DotNetNuke install directory.  A simple forwarding page in the root is not sufficient.

Enter a Portal Alias on the Site Settings page that looks like this: "www.mydomain.com/dnn" where dnn is the dotnetnuke install directory.  

Do this and create a forward command in your default root page.  Mine has "Response.Redirect("/DNN/Default.aspx");" in default.aspx.vb.

Jesus, someone please doc this stuff better!

Rich

Thanks for the info Rich

Ok I'm Tech Support for a hosting company. we recently got the ability to do DNN on our windows platforms. Working with it I have had the problem of re pointing my DNN package to my new domain. I went threw the steps of setting it up int he portal section and then I can across Rich's post as to how he got it to work (thanks Rich) but now I don't see the template body and when i click login it just takes me to the site with the temp domain i assigned. I know this isn't Issue with the domain pointer on the side of my host provider. Any suggestions?