Installing DotNetNuke on Brinkster

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 03:32:01 GMT

I am happy to finally have my DNN site up and running on my production web hosting provider, Brinkster. For those of you interested in hosting there I put together a list of items that need to be completed to get it to work.

Signup for their developer account. The basic and premium accounts do not give you SQL server, and DNN 4.0 needs SQL server.
Copy all of the DNN install files to Brinkster’s server. You can either install it to the root directory, or a sub directory. I chose the subdirectory option so that I can have other applications, or redirects in my root directory if I ever choose.
Make sure you update your web.config file with the correct SQL server information that you get from Brinkster. (You can find your SQL server name in Brinkster’s control panel)
Optionally, in the Web.Config file set the objectQualifier field to put a common tag on to each of the database items. This way to you share your database with other applications easier. (See the install instructions for more information about this setting)
Contact Brinkster’s online chat support and ask the operator to give write access for DNN to your directory that you installed DNN. If you don’t do this then the install will fail and you won’t be able to upload files to your account.
Open a web browser and navigate to your site. It should auto-install.

SPF/SIDF on brinkster

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:00:00 GMT

For those who have domains hosted on Brinkster and are looking to add SPF/SIDF to help stop SPAM, I recommend using the following:

v=spf1 mx/20 ~all

Notes: Just putting mx isn't enough, as Brinkster does not send their outgoing mail on the same servers that they accept incomming mail. So the mx/20 gives the least maintanence way of saying anything with an IP belonging to Brinkster near their incomming MX servers. You could also lookup the IP's of Brinksters outgoing mail servers, but then whenever Brinkster changed them your record would be invalid. It would be real nice if Brinkster setup their own SPF records for their domain (at which point you could do a include:brinkster.com)--but they have not done that..yet.

James Jegers

Installing DotNetNuke on Brinkster

SPF/SIDF on brinkster