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DotNetNuke Technical OverviewDotNetNuke Technical Overview

Section OverviewSection Overview

Installing DotNetNuke Demo: “DotNetNuke Manual Installation”

Enabling a Shared Hosting Offer Demo: “Exploring the Host Account”

Demo: “Provisioning DotNetNuke”

Enabling the Reseller Scenario Demo: “Creating Multiple Portals”

Best Practices and Resources

Installation RequirementsInstallation Requirements

Current: DotNetNuke v3.0.13 or later

Requires: Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or

Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 Internet Information Services (IIS) installed .NET Framework V1.1 Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000

Install DotNetNukeInstall DotNetNuke

Installation Process Unzip the code to a directory

Give Network Service account permissions

Create a virtual directory pointing to the content

Create an empty SQL database and user account

Assign permissions to db_securityadmin, db_ddladmin, db_datareader, and db_datawriter

Edit Web.config for SQL connection string

Browse to http://www.domain.com/vdir

Portals DefinedPortals Defined

DotNetNuke supports multiple portals within a single instance Additional portals are contained within the same

site and the associated database

What is a Parent Portal? Complete portal accessed by a unique domain

URL: www.contoso.com

What is a Child Portal? Complete portal located in a subdir of the main site

URL: www.fabrikam.com/vdir

Best PracticesBest Practices

Use page preview as Admin

Make modules that are visible only to Admin show red box

Pages visible only to Admin don’t show any flag

Add functionality with custom modules Versus making core changes

Use providers for plug-in flexibility Data access, membership, HTML edit, search, scheduling,

logging, friendly URLs

Watch DNN forums and bug tracker for fixes

See the documentation directory – many details explained

Visit the many resource sites for skins, containers, tutorials, other tips and tricks, and so on

DotNetNuke EcosystemDotNetNuke Ecosystem

More DotNetNuke resources:

Online forums for help

Context sensitive help

Wrox DotNetNuke Book

Quickstart tutorial –http://www.dotnetnuke.com/guidedtour/

DotNetNuke CommunityDotNetNuke Community

http://forums.asp.net/90/ShowForum.aspx

DotNetNuke Guided TourDotNetNuke Guided Tour

www.dotnetnuke.com/guidedtour

Next StepsNext Steps

Get up-and-running with DotNetNuke www.dotnetnuke.com/hosting/default.aspx

Free of charge (BSD-style open source license)

Custom development and service-level agreement (SLA) support sales@perpetualmotion.ca (Shaun Walker)

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APPENDIXAPPENDIX

DNN ArchitectureDNN Architecture

Stored Procedures

Tables

Functions

Core Services (VB.NET)

Business Logic LayerData Providers

Common Classes

Logic and Security

SQL Server Data Provider

Profile and Localization

Web Gateway

Web Presentation Layer User Controls

Rendering Logic

HTML Rendering

Skinning

SQLServer

DotNetNuke Baseline PerformanceDotNetNuke Baseline Performance

Overview Scenario: 2,000 websites on 1 front-end web

server with databases on 1 back-end SQL server, both running Windows Server 2003 SP1. 400 websites were configured per application pool, with a total of 5 app pools.

ASP.NET v1.1 ran in Medium Trust and we removed browserCaps and mobile support. IIS 6.0 had memory-based recycling enabled for app pools to ensure the system never reached unhealthy limits (private bytes=700MB, virtual bytes=1300MB) and an increased kernel request queue (5,000).

Each test ran for 12-hours.

DotNetNuke Baseline Performance ResultsDotNetNuke Baseline Performance Results

DotNetNuke Results Traffic Distribution: 95% traffic > 100 sites, 5%

traffic > 2,000 sites

Pages requested: 8

Requests-per-second: 611

Pages-per-second: 20

Total HTTP requests: 26,526,776

Average working set: 12MB

Average response time: 42msec

Hardware: Each server had (2) 3.6Ghz HT processors and 4GB RAM

Key Features of DotNetNuke Overall DesignKey Features of DotNetNuke Overall Design Easy to install and to host.

Fully extensible and scalable.

Clearly licensed under a BSD-style license.

Constantly evolving through real world trial.

Simply efficient and manageable. .

Priority on security.

Fully customizable. .

Fully localized. .

Easy to access community support. 

Designed for HostingDesigned for Hosting

Partitioned Data Model Enable multiple installs in a single DB

User base can be shared or isolated across sites

Shared admin tool constrained for current site

Other features Easily add-value with customized skins

Easily add-value with new language packs

Skins / languages are additive

DNN Installation WalkthroughDNN Installation Walkthrough

Installation Process (staging machine): Unzip the code to a directory

Give ASPNET/Network Service account permissions

Create a virtual directory pointing to the code

Create an empty SQL database, set up account as dbowner

Edit Web.config for SQL connection string

Browse to http://localhost/vdir

Change Host and Admin passwords!

Upgrade Process (simple): Back up your current configuration

Unzip the new code into the directory structure

Browse to the vdir

Installation DetailsInstallation Details

Initial setup – build a local staging site before trying to install in a hosted environment

Database = SQL (Access in v3 via 3rd party)

Web.config tags (in <data defaultprovider>): objectQualifier, databaseOwner

Installation failures: try delete & re-create DB

Web.config overview…

Site Builder Wizard – rehydrate from template

For More InformationFor More Information

www.dotnetnuke.com – project download (register) and info support.dotnetnuke.com – Gemini bug tracker www.asp.net/forums – DNN forums www.gotdotnet.com/community/workspaces http://www.cathal.co.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=28

Free v2 modules list (v3 coming) + resources + great skin!

http://dnnjungle.vmasanas.net – resource portal www.wwwcoder.com – resource portal www.dnn.com.au – resource portal www.dotnetnukehelp.com – resource portal www.asp.net – Microsoft’s ASP developer site http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnaspnet/html/

asp02182004.asp - Whidbey Provider Model http://spaces.msn.com/members/faithinteractive/?partqs=cat

%3DDotNetNuke&_c11_blogpart_blogpart=blogview&_c=blogpart

Best Practices ContinuedBest Practices Continued

Installation failures: try delete & re-create DB

Check SQL Database configuration

Verify accuracy of Web.config file

Visit the forums http://forums.asp.net/90/ShowForum.aspx

DotNetNuke Online Help Site http://www.dotnetnuke.com/default.aspx?tabid=787&helpculture=en-us&helpmodule=Portals

DotNetNuke Portal BuilderDotNetNuke Portal Builder

Build fully functional site in minutes

Online content authoring (no HTML)

Wizard to help users build sites

Integrated forum/blog/gallery

Membership features

RSS content syndication

Rich 200 module ecosystem

Customizable (modules, skins)

DotNetNuke: WizardDotNetNuke: WizardStep 1: Choose a template Step 2: Choose a design

Step 3: Add title and details Site pages are built

DotNetNuke: Adding a ModuleDotNetNuke: Adding a Module

Admin Bar

Select Module

Example: WebFusionExample: WebFusion

http://www.webfusion.co.uk/?source=webfusion-pipexportal