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3/8/2010 9:27 AM
 

First of all, thanks: UrlMaster has neatly solved one problem for me: that of replacing accented characters with their unaccented equivalent. The module is easy to install and configure, and I had the job done in minutes after wasting a few hours realising that DNN friendly Url rules are not up to this particular task.

Then I started to get into the module licensing process. Paying for a licence per domain, or for a pack of domains is reasonable, and presents no problem. However, I have DNN sites that have multiple portals, some of which require the particular product feature that interests me, and some that don't (I work both in English and Spanish; hence the need for the product). When you install a license file (at host level), although it removes the bright yellow licensing panel on the site that you licensed, it leaves it on all the other portals that don't need it.

Is there any way of preventing UrlMaster from doing that? I don't want to have to buy a server license when not all sites need the product.

Also, I have a staging server that I use for doing demonstrations to clients of new features and content during the development process. It is separate to the production server and DNN installation. I would like to be able to demonstrate the site with accented letters removed from the friendly urls, as it always concerns clients, but without the yellow licensing banner. Given that I will be licensing the production domain, is there any way of getting the domains for the staging sites included in the license as "alias" domains?


Paul Taylor
Dotcom Software Solutions Ltd
DotNetNuke, ASP.NET and SQL Server Development
 
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3/8/2010 12:19 PM
 

Hi Paul

The module is a little different in that every portal in the installation must use it.  This is because the Url Rewriting function for DotNetNuke also determines which portal a request belongs to (after all, all portals are really only one iis website).    This means that all portals must use the same rewriter, and thus all portals need a valid licence as you have found.  If you have > 5 unique domain names in your install, the solution is the host licence, which licences all portals in your installation.  So the answer to the first question is no, all portals in the install must use the product and as such need to be licenced.

You can always split your install into two separate installations.  This is pretty easily done by doing a backup/restore to a new location and deleting the unwated portals.  It's not the best solution but it does work.

Staging/development/testing licences are no problem and are included in whatever type of licence you purchase.

-Bruce

 
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