DotNetNuke® Websites: Problem — Design — Solution

2.3. Design

This chapter covers two scenarios in four examples. These four examples are designed to provide the information in a way that the options provided in this section can be mixed and matched to your installation requirements.

2.3.1. Scenarios

1. Installing DotNetNuke on a local computer in order to evaluate, develop, or practice using the web application. You can also use this type of setup to "build" the website and then export the content to a template to be used on your production web server. This is the scenario for the first three examples.

2. Installing DotNetNuke on a hosted web server or your company's production web server. This would be the server where people will go to view your website.

The obvious split in these two scenarios is whether the application will be available for public consumption (via the Internet or an intranet) or for use on a single computer. With two scenarios split over four examples with each using a different operating system, you can see a broad range of installation options.

Do not limit yourself to looking at only the example for your target operating system. Each example offers information and ideas that can be used in other operating systems. For instance, the first example uses Visual Web Developer and the Starter Kit, which would also work in other operating systems.