Adding www prefix for multi-portal DNN installations in IIS7

23. August 2010 19:22 by viperguynaz in DotNetNuke, Windows  //  Tags: , ,   //   Comments (0)
DotNetNuke is a well established open source, content management system (CMS). The platform allows users to develop multiple portals with different domain aliases using a single installation. Depending on your host though, you may have issues with URL cannonicalization. In plain English, this means that users that browse to your site with http://falconwebtech.com are redirected with a permanent 301 redirect to http://www.falconwebtech.com. It doesn't really matter which one you use, but to avoid duplicate content and enhance your sites' SEO rankings, pick one and follow the instructions below to setup the redirect on Windows IIS7. [More]

How to set DOCTYPE on DotNetNuke 4.4.x or greater

24. January 2008 14:15 by viperguynaz in DotNetNuke  //  Tags:   //   Comments (0)
Recently, I was experimenting with LightWindow in a DotNetNuke portal. The scripts work great in Firefox, but were giving me fits in IE7. I checked out the LightWindo forums and discovered the fix was setting the DOCTYP [More]

Multiple Edit Controls in DotNetNuke (DNN)

14. January 2008 22:26 by viperguynaz in DotNetNuke  //  Tags:   //   Comments (0)
I've developed several custom DNN modules, but none required more than the single view, edit and settings controls that are created with the starter kit. Well for my current project, I needed two edit controls. Creating the controls is easy if you follow any of the instructions you can find by googling "create custom dnn module". [More]

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