Bertcord wrote
What was the source of your error? It might be helpfull to others that are having the same issue
I think I stated in a previous post that it was a never ending list of errors. I would correct one then have another pop up, it was just plan and simple "messy". After chasing my tail for some time I took a break fighting with my home pc (about a week), uninstalled IIS, deleted everything I had locally in regards to DNN, and killed the MS SQL Express DB I had created.
I sat back down at my pc, and did this.
1. Opened MS SQL 2005 Express server management studio tools and created a new DB called "DotNetNuke", I did not make any changes to it at all, nothing with security or anything!
2. Created a directory at my root C:\DotNetNuke
3 Opened up IIS through admin tools in Control panel and created the virtual directory DotNetNuke, then browsed and pointed it to the C:\DotNetNuke directory
4. Through "My Computer" I right clicked on the C:\DotNetNuke directory and selected "Sharing and Security" and added the user ASP.NET and gave it READ&EXECUTE/LIST/READ/WRITE access.
5. Unzipped the DNN Install files into my C:\DotNetNuke directory.(I also downloaded the source files just to get the SiteUrls.aspx file from it and copied it into the C:\DotNetNuke directory, I learned this early in my trials and tribulations)
6. Renamed "release.config" to "web.config" then opened it using VWD, however any text editor will do.
7. I used the connection string for the MS SQL Server 2000/2005 even though I have MS SQL Express, I think this may confuse some people. Made the 6 required changes, commented out the 2 MS SQL Express strings, and uncommented the 2 MS SQL Server strings and inserted into both the MS SQL Server name(on my pc it is MAIN\SQLEXPRESS) added my user name and password that I use to log onto my computer, since that is what MS SQL Server uses if you are using it as Windows Authentication.
8. Opened MSIE and went to addy http://localhost/DotNetNuke and after a bit of a delay DNN installed without problem. Now I have done this several times now on different pc's and found one thing, if you get errors the first time you go to your DNN portal, just close your MSIE and re-open then browse back to http://localhost/DotNetNuke and that clears out the errors.
Of course you can name the DB anything you want, just make sure to change that in your web.config file, and you can make your virtual directory and root directory anything you want as well.
This may be a large repeat from many other forums, and from the install docs, but if I had of come across this type of explanation from day one I would not have had the problems I had, maybe it’s just the way I understand and figure things out. 