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7/7/2007 8:17 PM
 
User is offline Elijah Hansen

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i get this error: I have examined the database directly and there is no default portal.the portalalias table needs to ref. a portal. I am not sure what info is needed to write this directly.

any suggestions?

Domain Name westforkfire.org/apex Does Not Exist In The Database

DotNetNuke supports multiple portals from a single database/codebase. It accomplishes this by converting the URL of the client browser Request to a valid PortalID in the Portals database table. The following steps describe the process:

  1. Web Server Processing
    • When a web server receives a Request from a client browser, it compares the file name extension on the target URL resource to its Application Extension Mappings defined in IIS.
    • Based on the corresponding match, IIS then sends the Request to the defined Executable Path ( aspnet_asapi.dll in the case of ASP.NET Requests ).
    • The aspnet_isapi.dll engine processes the Request in an ordered series of events beginning with Application_BeginRequest.
  2. HttpModule.URLRewrite OnBeginRequest ( UrlRewriteModule.vb )
    • The Request URL is parsed based on the "/" character
    • A Domain Name is constructed using each of the relevant parsed URL segments.

      Examples:

      URL: http://www.domain.com/default.aspx = Domain Name: www.domain.com
      URL: http://209.75.24.131/default.aspx = Domain Name: 209.75.24.131
      URL: http://localhost/DotNetNuke/default.aspx = Domain Name: localhost/DotNetNuke
      URL: http://www.domain.com/virtualdirectory/default.aspx = Domain Name: www.domain.com/virtualdirectory
      URL: http://www.domain.com/directory/default.aspx = Domain Name: www.domain.com/directory
    • Using the Domain Name, the application queries the database ( Portals table - PortalAlias field ) to locate a matching record.

      Note: If there are multiple URLs which correspond to the same portal then the PortalAlias field must contain each valid Domain Name in a comma seperated list.

      Example:

      URL: http://localhost/DotNetNuke/default.aspx
      URL: http://MACHINENAME/DotNetNuke/default.aspx
      URL: http://209.32.134.65/DotNetNuke/default.aspx
      PortalAlias: localhost/DotNetNuke,MACHINENAME/DotNetNuke,209.32.134.65/DotNetNuke

      Note: If you are installing the application to a remote server you must modify the PortalAlias field value for the default record in the Portals table according to the rules defined above.

 
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7/8/2007 5:09 AM
 
User is offline Sebastian Leupold


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you shall be able to access your portal using the original domain address. Login as host, go to Portals in Host menu and add additional addresses if necessary.

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Sebastian Leupold

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7/9/2007 8:40 AM
 
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If for some reason your orig. portal alias is missing and you are unable to login you can also directly add a portal alias into the db.  But if you go that route you MUST restart the application for the new alias to work correctly! 

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7/9/2007 11:06 AM
 
User is offline Elijah Hansen

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I have had a lot of difficulty with my attempt to install this at 1and1.com. There have been issues with their folder permissions application and server side errors. In any case the application seems to be installed but I get the above error when I attempt to access it with the same url that i ran it will during the installation phase. I have examined the tabes in the database and see that there are no default aliases or portals. Since there is a foreign key relationship between the tables I have to approach this in the proper order. I have looked at the default portal i have installed on a local machine and think i can do what i need to do except that I do not understand the GUID column and am not sure what to put there. can I copy this from the local installation?

I imagine I can let the application time out and it will restart, or I can remove it as an application in ISS and reassign it application status to restart it untill I can access the admin pages.

Thanks for looking at this.

E.
 
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