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11/4/2008 3:11 PM

Jaje69

Joined: 3/21/2007

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Removing the Dotnetnuke directory

I have a dnn site with GoDaddy and I would like to remove the dotnetnuke directory. How do I go about doing that? Is there a script that I need?

11/4/2008 3:46 PM

Sebastian Leupold

www.dnnwerk.de
Joined: 3/8/2004

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Re: Removing the Dotnetnuke directory

Most Hosting companies provide you with a panel, where you can easily opload or remove files or folders. don't forget tor delete database as well.

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11/4/2008 3:55 PM

Jaje69

Joined: 3/21/2007

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Re: Removing the Dotnetnuke directory

What if the site is already live?

11/4/2008 4:58 PM

Sebastian Leupold

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Re: Removing the Dotnetnuke directory Modified By Sebastian Leupold on 11/4/2008 4:59:12 PM

if you delete DotNetnuke, there will be a nice 404 Error - "page not found" for any call to your site.

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11/4/2008 5:20 PM

Baatezu

Joined: 8/2/2005

Posts: 553

Re: Removing the Dotnetnuke directory

Since he's hosting with GoDaddy and they don't let you install into the root (without some shinanigans) it gets installed into something like www.MYDOMAIN.com/DotNetNuke, I think he wants to get it out of the *.com/DotnetNuke so it's just www.MyDomain.com.

I don't know of a good way to do this with godaddy.

A couple options I played with when I had a DNN site on godaddy was a redirect from mydomain.com to mydomain.com/dotnetnuke so they get to the correct site from mydomain.com.
A frame the wraps /dotnetnuke so the site is mydomain.com but has the actual DNN site in an IFRAME. I never liked this option because the URL remains mydomain.com and never changes.

That's all I have as options. There may be some things I'm unaware of that might work, but I don't think GoDaddy is a good DNN host. My experiences with the combination have never been good.

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