Sorry for the funky thread title but I've been playing with this thing since yesterday and find it exceedingly frustrating. The installation experience for this software is ridiculous. I've downloaded 3 packages- starter kit, installer, and source code. FWIW, I have worked as a developer for over 10 years and am currently a senior team lead building .Net projects. I have tons of VS, SQL, and .Net experience, and make my living doing it.
The starter kit says it is extracting some stuff, but good luck finding it. The setup doesn't say where it puts anything, and I see nothing in IIS or anywhere in Inetpub or program files. nor is there any sort of link in the Start Menu. Don't know what kind of starter kit it is... but certainly not beginner friendly. So I tried the installer. Following the readme and normal website config procedure, I created the db and sql user and then attempted to run the installer. The folder permissions are set up fine, and the connection tests OK. But the database script install runs forever with no feedback or completion. I let it run for 8 hours last night and it looked exactly the same when I woke up... the silly red bar just scrolling, telling me nothing. It created all of one table... 'Version', and 3 sp's... 'Get', 'Update', and 'FindDatabaseVersion'. No matter how long it runs, that's all I get, with no feedback, error, or finish. I extracted the Source version and found a mdf file in the App_Data folder. But when I try to restore that the data files do not exist.
Can someone just tell a brother in what version and where I can find either a sql backup or script to create the db myself. I don't want to use any fancy install tools. I know how to restore a db, configure security, and configure IIS. And that's what I want to do. For such a big project I'm amazed the setup is not a little cleaner. Or should I be trying v5.0.0.0?
I'm just trying to get a demo site configured so myself and a friend can experiment with it. In theory a basic CMS could make our lives easier, and being a .Net I was hoping to avoid Drupal and PHP. But so far it is anything but straightforward. If it is non-obvious to me, then no way could my associate understand it.