[AccessD] Simple web project

It's really just a matter of pointing the subdomain's DNS record to the appropriate directory.

It's possible that your web hosting company has the facility to set this up incorporated into a 
"control panel" applet - many of them do.  

If that is the case, it's just a matter of filling in the necessary details on an on-line form.

-- 
Stuart

On 26 Jul 2009 at 20:16, jwcolby wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> My understanding of the SomeName.SomeDomain.com is that DNN uses exactly the same process that it 
> does when you use an actual domain.  I will go figure it out.  It looked easy enough and I seem to 
> remember actually doing it years ago.
> 
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> 
> 
> Steve Erbach wrote:
> > 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.
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