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stevennestler
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Date: 8/11/2010 9:10 pm · Subject: Newbie questions · Rating: 0
Hi. I'm thinking of converting my DNN site to WebGUI, and would greatly appreciate answers on a couple of points: 1. CMS Matrix says that WebGUI offers sub-sites, or child portals. I don't see that listed as a feature. Is it so? 2. I am looking to have a "real name community," forcing members to use a real name for display, rather than a fictitious username that they use for login. Is that easy to implement in WebGUI? Thanks for any help, Steven
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fdillon
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Date: 8/11/2010 10:05 pm · Subject: Re: Newbie questions · Rating: 1
Steven, 1. Yes WebGUI offers sub-sites. WebGUI is basically a tree structure that can have multiple branches and even multiple roots. So your subsite is a branch of one of your existing sites. I currently know of a WebGUI site with hundreds of sub-sites, some of which even have their own URL. 2. A real name community is extremely simple to create. You have complete control over the actual source of everything you expose to your users though "templates". WebGUI offers several ways to get a user's "real name". Some assets in WebGUI have template variables that directly expose the first and last name of your user. If they don't, there are macros that allow you to pull information about a user by their ID which is always available. For instance, in this forum we could easily replace your username with your first and last name with a 5 minute template change. I hope that answers some of your questions. If you have more questions, there is a weekly webinar that you can sign up for where any question you have will be answered one on one: Good Luck! --- (Edited on 8/11/2010 10:05 pm [GMT-0500] by fdillon) --- |
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xootom
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Date: 8/17/2010 8:54 am · Subject: Re: Newbie questions · Rating: 0
How do you create a site with multiple roots that have separate URLs? I've cludged this for a couple of sites and used mod_rewrite to map everything that is in www.mainsite.com/subsite to www.subsite.com/subsite, with an entry to map www.subsite.com/ to www.subsite.com/subsite, but it has to maintain the /subsite folder structure as it's really one site, and you only have one 404 error page across all domains, for example. Is there a more elegant way of doing this in WebGUI? --- (Edited on 17-08-2010 14:54:16 [GMT+0100] by xootom) --- |
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stevennestler
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Date: 8/12/2010 4:40 am · Subject: Re: Newbie questions · Rating: 0
Fank, Thanks. Yes, that's extremely helpful. So far, it looks like WebGUI is perfect for my site. I will need customization, and so far, I haven't been able to contact Plain Black, either by email or phone. When are the Webinars? Steven --- (Edited on 8/12/2010 4:40 am [GMT-0500] by stevennestler) --- |
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preaction
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Date: 8/17/2010 11:49 am · Subject: Re: Newbie questions · Rating: 0
You can sign up for the webinar at http://www.plainblack.com/webinar In order for a single WebGUI site to transparently host a number of sites, yes you must change the Apache configuration to do it. In WebGUI 8 there will be a much better way to do it. --- (Edited on 8/17/2010 11:49 am [GMT-0500] by preaction) --- |
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