This is not a root directory install.

Thanks to http://www.northernstarsolutions for the unzip all files hint

Thanks to james.mcgough for suppling the correct SMTP settings

Thanks to thekubrix at asp.net forums for starting the whole documentatin process

These are the steps I used.  There may be a better way, there may be a different way, if so, have at it.  I wanted the simple way, this is it:

1. Register and Download 4.3.5
2. Create a directory to unzip the files into
3. Unzip all files, this will include navigating through all directories and unzipping additional files
4. You must have a hosting account at Godaddy the supports SQL
5. Open your godaddy Hosting Account panel
6. Create a SQL database with all schema features installed, note the servername, db name, username, and password
7. Set your ASP.NET runtime to 2.0
8. Modify the web.config file, replaing the XXX information with your information and uncommenting the connection SQL 2000 strings - NOTE, THIS IS DONE TWICE
1. <connectionStrings>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express -->
    <!-- add
      name="SiteSqlServer"
      connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" / -->
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005 -->
    <add
      name="SiteSqlServer"
      connectionString="Server=XXX;Database=XXX;uid=XXX;pwd=XXX;"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
   </connectionStrings>
   <appSettings>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express - kept for backwards compatability - legacy modules   -->
    <!-- add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;"/ -->
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005 - kept for backwards compatability - legacy modules -->
    <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Server=XXX;Database=XXX;uid=XXX;pwd=;XXX"/>
9. Create a custom directory WITH THE SAME NAME AS YOUR UNZIP DIRECTORY for your upload with READ, WRITE, and WEB permissions
10. Upload the files
11. Navigate to your site, www.yourdomain.com/yoursite, the install process should proceed
12. Log in and change the ADMIN password
13. Log in and change the HOST password
14. Update your SMTP settings (HOST, HOST SETTINGS, ADVANCED SETTINGS, SMTP SERVER SETTINGS) with relay-hosting.secureserver.net, your full email address (name@domain.xxx) and password
15. Test the connection
16. Setup your portals, sites, etc
17. Throw the dotNetNuke folks a few bucks for their product

I have done nothing new in my install.  This information was gleaned from the afore mentioned sources and I have only assembled it for 4.3.5 and Godaddy.

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Okay so when you mean unzip everything, your talking modules and everything?  And with the SQL database, should i make a new table in the database?  Is my server name my IP address?  Cause I can't find anything else.

I am really glad you found all this out.  Godaddy has been giving me problems with "all" of dotnetnuke since I let them install it for me.  I really wanted to do this myself.

Another correction 1st.  I set my dnn directory with the permissions, READ, WRITE, WEB, and SET ROOT.  I neglected to include the last, my apologies.

To answer you questions:

1) Unzip - I unzipped EVERYTHING, going through every directory.  I had tried the install without unzipping everything and was not succesful

2) Create the SQL database but do not creat any tables, the DNN install will do that

3) Once you create the SQL database, navigate to the DATABASE, SQL SERVER link, then click on the username link, that will bring up a page with your information.  Check the following and put them in the correct palces:

DATABASE NAME DB_XXXX goes to DATABASE=

HOST NAME whsql-xxx.xxx.xxx.secureserver.net goes to SERVER=

USERNAME yourusername goes to UID=

The password you specified for the db goes to PWD=

I installed DNN for additional control.  I was able to get my VALUE APPLICATION installation of DNN to work without problem, I just wanted to be able to manipulate the SQL DB and play with the code.

 

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