I've installed DNN4 on my local machine.
I did not followe instructions exactly... they said to rename release.config to web.config... but there was already a web.config (which came from the zipfile) so I just left it.
Anyway.. it appears to be working fine.. its using the sql express database etc...
I did have a little weird behaviour when I first tried to get a remote user to have a look a the site.. got them to point their browser at my machine... (http://IT_01/dnn4) and it kept redirecting them back to localhost... so I stuck on a portal alias ('it_01/dnn4') and that seemed to cure that...
Now though, remote users can see the site but cannot log in... and actually if I try to log in from my local machine without 'localhost' in the URL then the login will fail.. well.. it doesn't quite fail as.. it just doesn't log me in...
For example.. if I point my browser to http://localhost/dnn4/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Login/Default.aspx and type in a corect username and password, and click Login, then I'll be logged in, redirected back to default.aspx, and my username will appear on the top right beside 'logout'... and I can see the pages I added for registered users to see...
However if I point my browser to http://it_01/dnn4/Home/tabid/36/ctl/Login/Default.aspx and type in a correct username and password and click on Login.. then the page just flicks back to the default.aspx and 'Register' appears next to 'Login'..... so I'm not actually logged in..
This is all from my local machine... if I use localhost in the url it works fine.. if I use the machine name (which is in the aliases) then login doesn't appear to work...
The install virtual dir is called 'dnn4' and the machine is called IT_01 .. the alias I set up was 'it_01/dnn4'
dunno does the case matter? Anythign obvious wrong here? Any more info I could provide?
Thanks in advance
Vida