Added Forum Support with DotNetNuke
I am currently using GoDaddy.com as my website host. They are cheap and are pretty generous in terms of bandwidth and storage. Their web site could certainly be cleaner. They make just about every pixel link to some great deal they have for you, but judicious bookmarking let’s you skip right over the worst of it. Performance could be a little snappier when you hit your website, but it good enough for now. I suspect I will outgrow it in the not too distant future.
One nice feature they offer is automatic installation of DotNetNuke (DNN). DNN is a pretty serious Open Source ASP.NET application that can be used to create community centric websites. I was looking for something that would provide some straightforward forums for support and suggestions from users. Installation was a snap, and actually configuring DNN wasn’t too bad using the guide at their website. I did however manage to lock myself out of my own forums. On the Admin Site Settings page I set the Login and Register pages to point to Home, thinking that it meant they should redirect to the home forum page once you have logged in or registered. DNN actually intends for you to specify alternate Login and Register pages. The result was that every time I wanted to login I got redirected to home and couldn’t login as admin to change this.
Luckily, I am not the first person in the world to do this and John Mitchell’s blog has a post describing how to call your virtual locksmith to let you back into your own forums.
Tags: DotNetNuke, Forums
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