well, darn because i really can't follow those instructions.  they seem to be missing something vital ... like what package i need to download from dotnetnuke, what exactly and where exactly i ftp it up to (other than just "root"), and then step 10 isn't even a step just a warning.

i'm dead serious here, i need some very explicit directions because i really understand nothing about the whole deal.  :-\

Michael,

Thanks for using your knowledge to help all of us! I know I really appreciate your efforts Sir!

Darnell

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If God does not live in Colorado, I bet he visits there a lot!!

Well, I got it up and running!!! on a Godaddy $6.99 Deluxe plan I got last week.

its been a long 5 straight days working on this. with many thanks to everyone’s input, a lot of reading and a little trickery of my own. I managed to get it working, and I’m running ASP.NET ver 2.0

Details on how it was done.

read carefully and take your time.

1.   No FrontPage extensions.

2.   go to your control panel on Godaddy, under Content click Directory Management, click Create Directory and make the following folders with permissions.

bin --- with Read and Write permissions.

Config --- with Read and Write permissions.

DesktopModules --- with Read, Write and Web permissions.

Install --- with Read, Write and Web permissions.

Portals --- with Read, Write and Web permissions.

3.   also in the control panel under Databases click SQL Server. click Create New Database, enter your choice of name and password. I did click DSN and the ASP.NET Schema Features.

4.   refresh page after a few mins and click view connection strings under Actions (where you made the database). copy or write down the ODBC string, it look like (Driver={SQL Server};Server=whsql-v02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net;Database=XXXXXXXX;Uid=XXXXX;Pwd='your password'; ) take the highlighted part and paste or replace in the release.config file that is renamed to web.config. also change <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly"/> to Off.

5.   upload your files to Godaddy. all but the web.config file. The folders you made will show in your ftp, open each one and upload folder to folder. Example(files in bin folder on computer to open bin folder on server) also make sure all of the files are uploaded.

6.   now here is the trickery, (read slow) upload the web.config file in to the config folder. now from the config folder on the server drag both the SiteUrls.config and web.cofig over to your root with the main files(they should leave the folder). This seems to keep the permissions set to them when put in the config folder that you set permissions on. Now upload SiteUrls.config and web.cofig again in to config folder.

7.   ok take a minute, breath, drink, smoke, or whatever.

8.   now go to your site and it should install.

9.   change <customErrors mode="Off"/> back to RemoteOnly.

10.   enjoy.