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It's strongly recommended that reading my first article prior to reading this article and applying instructions. Please read the following article and follow the instructions to configure your DotNetNuke to create multiple parent and child portals and use your existing domain names with these multiple portals. Article 1: How to Install DotNetNuke 4.9 to Godaddy Root (Manual Installation) After applying instructions on first article, we can continue with next steps to achieve the main goal of this article. First of all you must install DotNetNuke 4.9 release to root level of your hosting account in order to use multiple domains for different portals based on same host portal. Godaddy offically does not support root level installations. See offical knowledge base article here. Can i install a DotNetNuke to my root folder? They say that: No, but you can create a meta redirect tag in your index file to forward site visitors to the correct folder. Well it's time to correct their knowledge. You can install DotNetNuke 4.9 at root directory as we covered on first article. Lets start business... Important Note: Some steps of this article may contain same items like you read in previous steps, i applied this method to make writting of tutorial easy. Thank you for your understanding. Also you should be familiar with Godaddy Hosting Center, FTP Management and DotNetNuke management.
After reading this article, you will be able to install DotNetNuke 5.0.0 release (currently latest DNN release available) application to root directory under of your Godaddy hosted environment. Before go on reading, make sure that you are using one of Godaddy (Deluxe or Premium) Windows plans.
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Update: A friend reported that Economy plan is enough to install at root level. However i wont support this plan since i haven't used it recently. It is very important that, i cannot accept any liability if this tutorial breaks your live environment, notice that this tutorial only works for new installations, not for upgrades. You also should backup your files before replacing them. As default, Godaddy does not allow customers to install DotNetNuke to root level. See offical KB Article at following link: Can I Install a DotNetNuke in my Root Folder? However with some effort, you can install DNN to root. I know it's not simple. But i had installed almost all releases from early DNN 4.x to DNN 4.9 release to root path with a good strategy.
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