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Hosting Domains as Portals in a Single Web Service with Email Aliases Minimize

With Frankland Hosting, you can host multiple domains or web sites within one DotNetNuke application, saving you administration time and disk space fees.  This can be accomplished in two ways, with domain aliases, or with a static IP address.

By using a domain aliases, you avoid the cost of a static IP address.  However, domain aliases automatically create email aliases for all mailboxes in your hosted domain.  In other words, mailbox@domainalias.com would automatically forward to mailbox@hosteddomain.com, and the user-name of the mailbox would be mailbox@hosteddomain.com.

If you wish independent mailboxes for your DotNetNuke portals, you'll need to follow the instruction in Hosting Domains as Portals in a Single Web Service with Independent Email Service.

This article assumes you are already hosting a single domain with Frankland Hosting, and have DotNetNuke installed to this domain.

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Log into the Frankland Hosting control panel
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Click the Domains icon
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  • From the Home page, click the Domains icon
Click the domain you wish to add as an alias
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  • Click the domain you wish to add an alias to
Click the Domain Aliases icon
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  • Click the Domain Aliases icon
Click the Add New button
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  • Click the Add New button
Specify the domain name you wish to use as an alias
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  • Specify the domain name and extension you wish to use as an alias
  • Click the Save button
Log into DotNetNuke with a superuser or host account
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  • Log into your existing DotNetNuke installation with a superuser (host) account
Click Portals on the Host menu
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  • Click Portals on the Host menu
Click the Add New Portal link
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  • Click the Add New Portal link
Specify Portal Setup fields
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  • Specify Portal Setup fields
    • Portal Type: Parent (Child would allow folders off of your existing portal EG: www.demodotnetnuke.com/portal2)
    • Portal Alias: The domain you added above
    • Title: The title of your web site
    • Description: A description of your web site (by default your home page will have this information in a meta tag which is indexed by search engines.)
    • Keywords: Key words that apply to your web site (by default your home page will have this information in a meta tag which is indexed by search engines.)
    • Template: Choose a template to apply to the new site
Specify Security Setup fields
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  • Specify Security Setup fields
    • First Name: The first name of the administrator of this portal
    • Last Name: The last name of the administrator of this portal
    • Username: The username for the administrator of this portal
    • Password: The password for the administrator of this portal
    • Confirm: Confirm the password for the administrator of this portal
    • Email: The email of the administrator of this portal
  • Click the Create Portal link