Jim,

DNN is totally different to FrontPage.  With DNN you create the content online using the DNN application not  an editor like FrontPage. 

DNN also requires 'software' on the Server to be able to work.  Are you sure that your host can support DNN?  Not all do.  if in doubt ask your provider.

Have you read the installation documentation available on the DNN download page?  This details the requirements. Basically for the current version you need .NET v2 and a Microsoft SQL DB.

HTH

Antony

Jim,

What is happening is that your webhost installed DNN into the /dotnetnuke directory. The index.html construction file is in the root directory and picks up all of the domain calls because it is either the only browser executable file or the first one on the list in your root folder. In the DNN installation the executable page is the one called "default.aspx". This installation is totally different than a standard html-built website. There are no real external pages you can look for and see. All of the content is located in the database and when you access the page DNN takes it out and puts it in viewable form on a page dynamically. So when you access your site by www.JamesTSnow.com/dotnetnuke/ you are actually skipping over your root directory and any executable files that may be located there and executing the default.aspx file in that directory.

As mentioned above you have the 2 choices of eliminating the /dotnetnuke directory name in your domain access URL.

1. Put a redirect page in your root directory - there is a standard redirection file you can put in your root folder which will catch the domain calls form www.JamesTSnow.com and send the requestor automatically to the subdirectory (again make sure it is the only executable or the highest one on the list in the root directory). This is the method you must use if your webhost will not allow your DNN installation in the root directory (ie godaddy). You can google for a copy, ask your webhost or if this is the direction you want to take - repost and I will find one for you.

2. Move the site to the root directory - I'm not sure why your webhost installed DNN in a subdirectory - it might be required by their directory structure or that is just normal procedure for them. If not required then the easiest thing to do would be to ask them to reinstall DNN to the root directory since you don't have much content yet. If you do this you have to make sure that you remove the index.html file or place default.aspx higher on the execution list. You can also just move your files up to the root directory but then you have to add your domain URL without the subdirectory to the portalalias table in your database either manually or by using the admin-->site settings page before moving the files.

I hope this leads to your better understanding,

Mike

Thanks for the responses. I put the meta tag in the head The new index page shows up for a second, then redirects to the my home page in the dotnetnuke directory. I still have the dotnetnuke in the address bar though.

Now I have another unrelated problem, lol...

Jim