Recovered: Portal on Shared Web Server
Help Needed: Portal on Shared Web Server
My customer has access to hardware and network resources he doesn't own but are provided to him by another organization.
The have a robust network environment that includes a large SharePoint farm intended to support the portal requirements of their many customers of which my customer is one.
The provider wants to create a new website, extend it to SharePoint Portal, attach a unique IP address to it, and give it a DNS name. They will then allow us nearly unfettered access to the SharePoint environment but I must "hand off" any files or templates that I want to run on their server; I won't be able to get to the 60 Hive and edit the files like I owned them.
My question is: won't my portal and the other portals on the web server "share" a 60 emplates1033SPS folder?
So, I won't get any access to the ..SPSdefault.aspx file.
My next question is: Since I've already shown my customer a home page that I've customized in FrontPage, how do I get the new portal to use my customized default.aspx on the shared server?
Is there some process by which I can put a new folder in the 60 emplates1033 location like "MySPS" and then put my deafult.aspx in it and then make my portal use that file?
Where do I tell the server which default.aspx to run when?
I sure would like to discuss any options for quickly finding a resource that would be willing to make this process "crystal clear."
-robot
, January 18, 2006 4:49 PM by SPRobot
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# re: Help Needed: Portal on Shared Web Server @ Thursday, January 19, 2006 3:17 AM
Hi!
You could create your own template called MySPS in the 1033 location and register it in a WEBTEMPCUSTOM.XML file in the XML folder with a unique ID.
Then you would create your portal. At first it would be using the default SPS template.
Now you can create and setup a hidden Area Template based on your MySPS template.
You would do it like this: Create a SubArea called CustomStartPage anywhere on the portal based on the MySPS template. Exclude it from portal site navigation in the Manage Portal Site. Go to the newly created Area URL and copy the last part of it.
For example: http://web.archive.org/web/20060706014922/http://portal/C6/CustomStartPage/default.aspx
would be /C6/CustomStartPage/default.aspx.
Choose edit on the root page in the Manage Portal Site page. Click the Page tab. Select the This area uses the following page as a template radio button. Paste the part of the URL which was copied in the field below. Click the OK button. Navigate to the start page and copy the URL from the address field in the browser.
You could then unghost the startpage with FrontPage so that it does a javascript redirect to your own customized Startpage address which you just copied.
I don't know if this is the perfect way of doing it but this is how I manage tho portals on the same server using different versions of SPS/default.aspx.
// Johan
# re: Help Needed: Portal on Shared Web Server @ Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:02 AM
When I think about it, I assumed that the default.aspx in the SPS folder had already been tampered with just because that is my scenario here. Sorry about that.
If the default.aspx in the SPS folder is untouched then all that needs to be done is to create your portal on their server, open the start page in FrontPage 2003 and replace all the code with your own code and save it so that the startpage is unghosted (page is stored in the database instead of being read from a template on the file system).
That is if you only have modified that start page. If you have done things on every page for all the views etc you should probably go with my first post.
Best Regards
Johan
# changing the default.aspx without using frontpage @ Friday, February 10, 2006 12:04 AM
hello i am trying to change the default.aspx without using frontpage?
help needed on that?
also
when we create a portal how does it know about the location of default.aspx?