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Defaulting to DNN directory

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badkneecap

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I installed DNN in a subdirectory, as the installation requires. How can I change the site setup in Plesk so that when someone goes to the default domain, it actually is in the installed dnn directory without the user seeing it?

So, if the user goes to http://mywebsite.com, in reality it's in the http://mywebsite.com/dnn directory?

This seems like it should be a simple fix, otherwise what's the point in being able to install those ASP.NET applications?

- PR
 
Unfortunately Plesk can't adjust this feature yet. But I can offer you to use some kind of workaround. You need just create index.html file contained the following text:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<META http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET rows="*,0">
<FRAME src="http://mywebsite.com/dnn" noresize>
<NOFRAMES>
Your browser does not support frames.
</NOFRAMES>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

This file will forward http://mywebsite.com to http://mywebsite.com/dnn
 
Hi, badkneecap

Have you put this file in the

vhosts\mydomain.com\httpdocs\

folder? You also need to make sure, that the index.html is in the documents settings for this domain.

Does this help?
 
Yes, I saved the above code as index.html in the \httpdocs directory. It loads, because I can see the above code when I view the source code. However, nothing shows up, not even the no frames message.
 
Hi, badkneecap

Make sure, that your DNS configuration is fine on your server.
Try to browse this site from your server.

Is this useful?
 
Hi, badkneecap

I`m sorry, what I told you in the last post was something useless %).
Ok, you need to check, if you can browse the URL from your client. Also, in your browser you can go to "view source" and make sure that the html page has been loaded correctly.
 
Yes, I checked both of those and they're working. Weird.
 
Hi, badkneecap

Could you please provide me with this link? Maybe this is a browser-related issue?
 
A meta redirect is not the solution I was looking for. If that was the case, I could have simple used an ASP redirect to the /dnn directory. The issues I'm trying to resolve is to change it so the user doesn't see the /dnn directory name as the end.

I solved this problem by creating the new site locally and pushing it up to the server in the root directory. That solves my problem, but I would think that this problem still exists for many people out there. When I first started messing around with DNN, for $10 a month, I opened an account where I could install it for my account. But it required that I install it in a subdirectory. Personally, if I had to redirect my users to the /dnn directory on my site so users can my website, I wouldn't like it. It would look very unprofessional to me if I saw this on someone else's site.

Thanks for the suggestions.
 
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