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Prior to installing DotNetNuke, you can make changes to your site that will completely customize your website installation; saving you the mundane work of changing the same things over and over again.

Today we’re going to take a look at customizing the DotNetNuke.install.config file. You can find it in the root of the Install folder.

Check out the file below…anything look familiar???

<dotnetnuke>
    <description>This is the default DotNetNuke Host Installation Templatedescription>
    <scripts>
        <script name="Schema">DotNetNuke.Schemascript>
        <script name="Data">DotNetNuke.Datascript>
    scripts>
    <version>05.00.00version>
    <superuser>
        <firstname>SuperUserfirstname>
        <lastname>Accountlastname>
        <username>hostusername>
        <password>dnnhostpassword>
        <email>hostemail>
        <locale>en-USlocale>
        <timezone>0timezone>
    superuser>
    <settings>
        <AuthenticatedCacheability>4AuthenticatedCacheability>
        <AutoAccountUnlockDuration>10AutoAccountUnlockDuration>
        <CheckUpgrade>YCheckUpgrade>
        <ControlPanel>Admin/ControlPanel/IconBar.ascxControlPanel>
        <Copyright>YCopyright>
        <DemoPeriod>DemoPeriod>
        <DemoSignup>NDemoSignup>
        <DisableUsersOnline>YDisableUsersOnline>
        <EnableFileAutoSync>YEnableFileAutoSync>
        <EnableModuleOnLineHelp>YEnableModuleOnLineHelp>
        <EnableRequestFilters>NEnableRequestFilters>
        <EncryptionKey Secure="True">EncryptionKey>
        <EventLogBuffer>NEventLogBuffer>
        <FileExtensions>swf,jpg,jpeg,jpe,gif,bmp,png,doc,xls,ppt,pdf,txt,xml,xsl,css,zipFileExtensions>
        <HelpURL>http://www.dotnetnuke.com/default.aspx?tabid=787HelpURL>
        <HostCurrency>USDHostCurrency>
        <HostEmail>HostEmail>
        <HostFee>HostFee>
        <HostPortalId>0HostPortalId>
        <HostSpace>HostSpace>
        <HostTitle>DotNetNukeHostTitle>
        <HostURL>http://www.dotnetnuke.comHostURL>
        <HttpCompression>0HttpCompression>
        <HttpCompressionLevel>0HttpCompressionLevel>
        <ModuleCaching>DModuleCaching>
        <NotifyUpgrade>YNotifyUpgrade>
        <PageQuota>PageQuota>
        <PageStatePersister>PPageStatePersister>
        <PaymentProcessor>PayPalPaymentProcessor>
        <PerformanceSetting>3PerformanceSetting>
        <ProcessorPassword Secure="True">ProcessorPassword>
        <ProcessorUserId Secure="True">ProcessorUserId>
        <ProxyPassword Secure="True">ProxyPassword>
        <ProxyPort>ProxyPort>
        <ProxyServer>ProxyServer>
        <ProxyUsername Secure="True">ProxyUsername>
        <SchedulerMode>2SchedulerMode>
        <SiteLogBuffer>1SiteLogBuffer>
        <SiteLogHistory>0SiteLogHistory>
        <SiteLogStorage>DSiteLogStorage>
        <SkinUpload>GSkinUpload>
        <SMTPAuthentication>SMTPAuthentication>
        <SMTPEnableSSL>NSMTPEnableSSL>
        <SMTPPassword Secure="True">SMTPPassword>
        <SMTPServer>SMTPServer>
        <SMTPUsername Secure="True">SMTPUsername>
        <UseCustomErrorMessages>YUseCustomErrorMessages>
        <UseFriendlyUrls>YUseFriendlyUrls>
        <UserQuota>UserQuota>
        <UsersOnlineTime>20UsersOnlineTime>
        <WebRequestTimeout>WebRequestTimeout>
        <WhitespaceFilter>NWhitespaceFilter>
    settings>
    <desktopmodules/>
    <portals>
        <portal>
            <portalname>My Websiteportalname>
            <administrator>
                <firstname>Administratorfirstname>
                <lastname>Accountlastname>
                <username>adminusername>
                <password>dnnadminpassword>
                <email>email>
            administrator>
            <description>My Websitedescription>
            <keywords>DotNetNuke, DNN, Content, Management, CMSkeywords>
            <templatefile>DotNetNuke.templatetemplatefile>
            <portalaliases>
                <portalalias>portalalias>
            portalaliases>
            <ischild>falseischild>
        portal>
    portals>
dotnetnuke>

You can completely customize this file with the settings that you always use and save yourself countless amounts of time in the process.