DotNetNuke: Creating a new parent portal in localhost

As we all know, dotnetnuke provides a to build a multiportal environment using a single dotnetnuke installation and I was doing that exercise in order to get that running in localhost.

So let's start building a new parent portal in local environment:

1. Login to host and go to Host > Portals
2. Click Create New Portal
3. Enter portalName Parent1 and username parent1admin, and add all other required data.
4. go ahead an create new portal.

Creating a new portal in local environment will create a new portal Portal1. Now you need to do following after completing above 4 steps.

1. Create a new virtual directory Parent1 and point it to dnn installation that you are using to create this portal
2. Go to Host > Sql and execute this query :
   UPDATE PortalAlias
   Set HTTPAlias = 'localhost/Parent1'
   Where HTTPAlias='Parent1' or HTTPAlias='parent1'
3. Try accessing localhost/parent1
   

We are done with installing a new parent portal.
Hope you enjoyed this trick.