Hi,

I've been trying to re-install DotNetNuke for the past week without success. I installed DNN version 6.02.08 about a year ago and I successfully created 4 sites for my client. Since then, my computer has been re-formatted and I re-installed everything. I have the same OS (Win 7) as before and the database server has not changed (SQL 2005). I copied my existing DNN files from my backup to the same folder structure I had before. In IIS (7.5), I added an Application under the Default Website, created an App Pool for it. I assigned NETWORK SERVICE to the folder security and gave it full control. I also added IIS AppPool\MyAppPool to the folder security and gave it full control. I have verified that there is a SQL account for NT Authority\Network Service.

I navigate to http://localhost/MyDNNSite and I get a "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error message. Can anyone shed some light on this error? I now have to make changes requested by the client and I cannot re-install it in order to work on it.I've wasted about a week on this and it's increasingly getting frustrating.

Thanks

Hi cathal,

Thanks for the reply. I'm using DNN 6.02.08 because my client only has a SQL 2005 license and DNN 7 doesn't work  with SQL 2005. You're right, I think I am a little confused on the permissions...I'm trying to set it up the same way it was last year and it all worked fine then. I'm not sure if it's an IIS issue or a SQL permissions issue. This is what I've done and maybe you can see where I went wrong:

I selected "Add Application" under my default website in IIS 7.5 and pointed my application to the DNN website on my machine (these files reside in a folder that is not in my "inetpub/wwwroot" folder...if this matters). I created an AppPool called CMS which is using NetworkService as the Identity and I've assigned this app pool to my application. The permissions on the folder that holds my DNN files are as follows:

I've added NETWORK SERVICE from my local machine and gave it full Access
I've also added IIS AppPool\CMS and gave it full control as well

My connection string in the web.config uses SQL authentication which references the SQL database server and user/password. This hasn't changed since it worked last year. This database user exists as a user in my database and has datareader and datawriter assigned to it. I also have NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE and it has dbo access. This all seems to be the configuration I had last year and it all worked. Do you see anything wrong?

Thanks

I've tried a couple of tests. I don't think there's anything wrong with my configuration. I've set up another website with a fresh copy of DNN 6.2.8 and stepped through creating a new database and I was successful. So my IIS, Folder and SQL settings are good. Then I copied over my original files into this folder while pointing to this new database and it's still good. Then I changed to my other database, made sure my PortalAlias is pointing to the right site and I get a "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" error message...so it must have something to do with my original database...although these files and this exact database  work in the production environment. I'm tempted to run a SQL Data Compare on the 2 databases but that seems like a lot of work just do get my DNN site up and running again. Any thoughts as to what it might be?