[AccessD] Simple web project

John,
Sorry for the delay in replying...quite a bit of family activity these past
few days.

I have not set up a website that looks like Mary.ColbyConsulting.com...I
have only used the usual capability of buying a new domain name and then
using DNN to handle the redirecting to a sub-portal on my site.  That is, in
the Host account for my DNN site, if I look at any of the portals I've
created, they all have standard www.domainname.com names.  They're all
"parent" portals, too.

The "normal" DNN way of setting up subwebs/sub-portals is to create a
"child" portal using the Host super user DNN account.  Once you've selected
"child" you simply type the alias as www.ColbyConsulting.com/Mary.  There a
few other things to fill in, but that's the gist of it.

I think that if you want to use the Mary.ColbyConsulting.com nomenclature,
you have to first fiddle with your domain settings.  My understanding is
that that sort of URL indicates a separate server in the domain, n'est-ce
pas?  It's simpler to use the /Mary style of subweb.

Does this help at all?

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:58 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Could you help me do this?
>
> Have you ever used the subdomain thing where you use DNN to set up a web
> page but it is just a
> subdomain of your own domain?  Like Mary.ColbyConsulting.com or
> Family.ColbyConsulting.com.  If you
> type in www.family.colbyconsulting.com DNN directs you to that subdomain
> page which can be an entire
> web site just like your purchased domain names are.
>
> I know this whole DNN subdomain thing is just built-in but I have never
> done it.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>
> Steve Erbach wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > Have you considered using your existing DNN installation?  I've set up
> few
> > sub-webs with the help of DNN.  I simply purchased the domain names and
> DNN
> > handles the re-routing to subdirectories in the DNN tree.
> >
> > For example, TheTownCrank.com, NeenahPolitics.com, TheGodfatherOfLaw.com,
> > and OTIReunion.com are all subwebs under my main swerbach.com domain.
> >
> > That said, you can certainly add new tables to the SQL Server back-end
> that
> > DNN is using.  I do believe that you could write a DNN module or three to
> > handle this PTA stuff and all the DNN security would be built-in.
> >
> > Steve Erbach
> > Neenah, WI
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:12 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I need some advice.  My wife is on the PTA.  She (I as her husband) was
> >> tasked with a simple
> >> database for tracking volunteer work for the PTA.  They have to track
> (they
> >> get "credit" for) hours
> >> that volunteers put in.
>