Hi Guys,

After adding a database and copying the code of dnn onto the hosting. It gives me this error. Though my web.config file is like this

Though my config file looks like this.

<configuration>
 <system.web>
  <customErrors mode="Off"/>
  <machineKey validationKey="F9D1A2D3E1D3E2F7B3D9F90FF3965ABDAC304902" decryptionKey="F9D1A2D3E1D3E2F7B3D9F90FF3965ABDAC304902F8D923AC" decryption="3DES" validation="SHA1" />
  <!-- HttpModules for Common Functionality -->
  <httpModules>
   <!-- add name="Authentication" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.AuthenticationModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Authentication" / -->
   <add name="UrlRewrite" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewriteModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewrite" />
   <add name="Exception" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.ExceptionModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Exception" />
   <add name="UsersOnline" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UsersOnlineModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UsersOnline" />
   <add name="DNNMembership" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.DNNMembershipModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.DNNMembership" />
   <add name="Personalization" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.PersonalizationModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Personalization" />
  </httpModules>
  <httpHandlers>
   <!-- This is for FTB 3.0 support -->
   <add verb="GET" path="FtbWebResource.axd" type="FreeTextBoxControls.AssemblyResourceHandler, FreeTextBox" />
   <!-- This is for CAPTCHA support -->
   <add verb="*" path="*.captcha.aspx" type="DotNetNuke.UI.WebControls.CaptchaHandler, DotNetNuke" />
   <!-- This is for Serving files, secure, insecure, from database -->
   <add verb="*" path="LinkClick.aspx" type="DotNetNuke.Services.FileSystem.FileServerHandler, DotNetNuke" />
  </httpHandlers>
  <!-- set code access security trust level - this is generally set in the machine.config
    <trust level="Medium" originUrl="http://localhost/.*" />
     -->
  <!-- set debugmode to false for running application -->
  <compilation debug="true" strict="false">
   <assemblies>
    <add assembly="Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A" />
    <add assembly="System.DirectoryServices, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A" />
    <add assembly="System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A" />
    <add assembly="System.Management, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A" />
   </assemblies>

I tried out keeping a saperate web.config file with only these many tags  and this error was gone but in that case I was not having anything else in the web.config so it was not working fine.

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="Off"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Server Error in '/' Application.

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Runtime Error

Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="Off"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

There's got to be something else to it as I have the customErrors mode="Off" (case sensitive) in my config file but I still can't get dotnetnuke to install on a fresh server.

Any ideas getting desperate.....

thanks,