With Frankland Hosting, you can host multiple domains or web sites within one DotNetNuke application, saving you administration time and disk space fees.  This can be accomplished in two ways, with domain aliases, or with a static IP address.

By using a static IP address, you do incure a monthly fee of $2.00.  However, this method allows you individual control of the email addresses on each domain you host within DotNetNuke.

If it is not necessary to have individual email addresses on each domain, you may want to save the cost of the static IP, and follow the instructions in Hosting Domains as Portals in a Single Web Service with Email Aliases.

This article assumes you are already hosting a single domain with Frankland Hosting, and have DotNetNuke installed to this domain.

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• Log into the Frankland Hosting control panel (http://cp.franklandhosting.net)

• Click on the Extra Features icon

• Select the package you wish to add the static ip to
• Click the Next button

• Select Static IP Address
• Click the Add button

• Send an email to support@franklandhosting.com specifying the domain you wish to add the static IP to
• You will receive notification within four business hours of your new IP address, use this IP address to complete the remainder of these steps

• From the Home page, Click the Domains icon

• Click the "Add New" button

• Select your registration preference
  • No registration or transfer required - The domain will be added as a web site and email domain, but will not be registered for you.  It is assumed that you have registered the domain elsewhere and will update your name servers with your registrar.
  • Please register this domain - Frankland Hosting will register this domain for you.
  • Please transfer administration of this domain - Frankland Hosting will transfer "registrar" control of this domain to us.
• Click the "Next" button

• If you have selected No registration or transfer required
• Type the domain name and extension to add as a portal
• Click the "Save" button

• If you have selected Please register this domain or Please transfer administration of this domain
• Type the domain name to add as a portal
• Select the domain extension from the list of supported tlds
• Click the "Save" button

• From the Home page, click the Domains icon

• Click the domain you wish to add as a portal

• Click the DNS Zone Editor icon

• Click the www a record

•  Click the Delete button

• Click the Add New button

• Specify www as the Record Name
• Specify your static ip as the Record Data
• Click the Save button

• Click the wild card (*) a record

• Click the Delete button

• Click the Add New button

• Specify * as the Record Name
• Specify your static ip as the Record Data
• Click the Save button

• Log into your existing DotNetNuke installation with a superuser (host) account

• Click Portals on the Host menu

• Click the Add New Portal link

• Specify Portal Setup fields
  • Portal Type: Parent (Child would allow folders off of your existing portal EG: www.demodotnetnuke.com/portal2)
  • Portal Alias: The domain you added above
  • Title: The title of your web site
  • Description: A description of your web site (by default your home page will have this information in a meta tag which is indexed by search engines.)
  • Keywords: Key words that apply to your web site (by default your home page will have this information in a meta tag which is indexed by search engines.)
  • Template: Choose a template to apply to the new site

• Specify Security Setup fields
  • First Name: The first name of the administrator of this portal
  • Last Name: The last name of the administrator of this portal
  • Username: The username for the administrator of this portal
  • Password: The password for the administrator of this portal
  • Confirm: Confirm the password for the administrator of this portal
  • Email: The email of the administrator of this portal
• Click the Create Portal link