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Parent versus Child Portals - What is the difference?
| One of the strengths for DNN is its ability to support multiple portals from on a single installation of DNN. The two portal options are a parent portal and a child portal. DNN Parent Portals Parent portals are basically the top level portals for a website. For example, xyz.com and abc.com both require a parent portal to operate. The advantage of using DNN is you can have multiple parent portals on one installation of DNN on one hosted account. This offers a number of advantages such as reduced hosting costs, shared information between portals, higher chance of holding DNN in memory for low use sites and, common use of modules reducing costs. You can have as many parent portals as you can have domain aliases for your hosting account. The domain name must be registered unless you are using a third level domain name such as 123.abc.com. Extra portals on the same DNN installation share common resources. Please allow for this when considering your hosting needs. DNN Child Portals Child portals are more like a page on your site but can have their own specific admins and pages beneath them. In DNN, child portals can only exist one way. If you have abc.com and create a child portal named qprit would appear as this: "abc.com/qpr". It appears as if it would just be a page of your website but really it is a seperate portal and all teh functionality of a portal. There is no extra steps required in the Control Panel when creating child portals. Creating a new "DNN Parent Portal" is a knowledge base article. |
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