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
Time Length: 6min 46secs
Video 3 - Creating a sub-domain parent portal and a child portal
- How to create a sub-domain as a new parent portal
- How to set the Host Header details for a sub domain with your hosting provider
- Testing the new administrator account
- How to create a child portal
- Child portal, portal alias
- URL of a child portal
- Folders created for a child portal
Time Length: 8min 46secs
Total Time Length: 25min 6secs
Reference material for the videos
DotNetNuke and Multiple Portals
How to adjust your Nameserver Settings
Reseller Choice
We now recommend that you view the other tutorials listed at the bottom of this page, especially
Portal Considerations.