Will DNN 2X resolve and function if the domain name is forwarded and masked?

So far we are able to have our domain resolve to the proper portal on the DNNb2 site using forwarding. Masking the url causes the login to hang at a blank page.

Godaddy is the registar and WH4L is hosting the beta dnn install. We really don't want to transfer a domain to a beta site and wait 24 hours.

Have you considered having your DNS at ZoneEdit? I have all my domains registered at GoDaddy but use ZoneEdit for DNS. Extremely reliable, cost-efficient and I can switch IP's/host names and have the changes be available on the net within minutes.

Nik

I'll give it a try with a demo domain name. The one issue I fore see is that DNN is not installed in the root and may not be accessible by IP Address.

Just to clarify -- I didn't mean to imply that you have to use the IP to access DNN. In my setup:

- GoDaddy (Registrar) -- Domain primary and secondary nameservers are set to those assigned by ZoneEdit

- ZoneEdit (DNS) -- Allows adding/deleting/modiying DNS entries for a domain with a browser.

For all my DNN portals, I have IIS setup with one IP and one instance of DNN. IIS has two host headers for each portal (www.domain.com and domain.com). DNN has the same two aliases for each portal in the Alias field.

Whenever I register a new domain that I want to have as a DNN portal, I do the following:
- Add the domain to ZoneEdit which immediately assigns me two nameservers. I add entries for www.domain.com and domain.com pointing to my one IP.
- Register the domain at GoDaddy using the ZoneEdit-assigned nameservers.
- Add www.domain.com and domain.com as host headers to my single instance of DNN.
- Login as host in DNN and add a new portal. Set the portal aliases to www.domain.com and domain.com

As soon as the WhoIs database is updated with the new domain info, the portal goes live. If I ever need to redirect temporarily, I login to my ZoneEdit account and make the IP change to direct traffic to a different server and revert back when the maintenance or whatever is done.

BTW, it makes no difference where DNN is installed. As long as the portal alias matches the URL path, DNN will detect the portal correctly.

Nik

Thanks for the info Nik. This info is helpfull as I have about 4 sites I am goign to set up for some firends. What do you use to host email for you domians?

Thanks
Bert

After evaluation just about every decent mail server product, I settled on and have been using a product called MDaemon (www.altn.com). It is a very cool mail server w/ an Outlookesque webmail client.

Nik

Looks cool I think I will download it and play around with it. I also saw that godaddy offers email services also.

Next thing I need to decide if I should get a dedicated server or shared. I hate doing shared I, always end up getting placed on the server with 300 other sites and the performance is terrible. I would love to get my own box with SQL just to myself. To bad the SQL license costs so much.

I don’t think I have enough sites to go dedicated just yet but I am shopping around.

What do you do for hosting?

Bert

Dedicated servers on MaximumASP all the way and a couple more as lukewarm spares at other hosts. Can't beat the price, support and reliability!

Nik