The standard way is to start with aniline, acylate it with acetic anyhdride to make the amide and then nitrate with nitric acid and sulphuric acid. You get a mixture of ortho and para nitroanalides which can be separated. Then the analide is hydrolysed and the aniline product treated with sodium nitrite and HBF4 to make the diazonium fluoborate. This is treated with sodium nitrite and copper in water to give the ortho dinitrobenzene. (see for example Organic Syntheses, Coll. Vol. 2, p.225 (1943) for the similar para dinitrobenzene proceedure).
The fluoroboric acid is made by adding boric acid slowly to hydrofluoric acid. This is not for the faint hearted - it has to be done slowly, in and ice bath and in a copper, lead, or silver-plated container placed. HBF4 is pretty nasty.