So I am a complete newbie to DNN and have downloaded and installed on my local IIS dot net nuke. It sits in a virtual directory under localhost/dotnetnuke. I can go to this url and log in as admin and host with not problem.

I have set up three super simple html pages and linked them one to another and added a link from the home page to the first in the order. (I am doing this just to figure out the basics of DNN).

My problem now is I don't know how to 'publish' my new site. If I go to localhost/dotnetnuke my new 'link to page 1' shows up but so does all the dot net nuke portal controls and when I click this link it then wants me to enter credentials for authentication instead of going to page 1.

My question then is, how do I publish the sites I create so that someone can come to them as they would any other site. I don't want them to see the dotnenuke design information. I just want a home page with the links to the pages with the html modules I created.

Jeff,

Thanks for the quick reply but I'm not talking about setting up for remote viewing (i.e. someone come through IIS via my registered domain)

I just want to test it locally as if I am a user coming in. For ASP.net pages I have always used localhost/virtualdirectory/default.aspx.

I understand that user who are not logged in as admin or host should not be seeing the  dotnetnuke controls but I don't want users to have to log in at all. I assume there is a setting somewhere that doesn't require log in to the system. Currently when the home page loads the dotnetnuke controls are not there (this is good) but once the link 'go to page 1' is clicked credentials are required. I don't want this. I want it to go directly to page one.