I am tring to install a DNN website for the first time (my company has a site so I want to know how to do it).  I will later need to know how to move a site to another.  I have searched high and low and came up with nothing but vaugness.  I am going through the steps from the site and the book to no prevail.  I seem to get a different error on each PC I try it on (all windows professional btw).  One PC is that it cant connect to the SQL db and i use the cmd line:  SQLCMD -S (local)\SQLEXPRESS -E then I typed CREATE DATABASE DNN then GO.  It creates the dd, I change it in the web.config (changed from release.config) and I get the failure to connect to the DB.  I try it on a fress PC that has never had DNN on it and I go through the same process and I get this:

Server Error in '/DNN' Application.

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Failed to access IIS metabase.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironmentException: Failed to access IIS metabase.

The process account used to run ASP.NET must have read access to the IIS metabase (e.g. IIS://servername/W3SVC). For information on modifying metabase permissions, please see http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=267904.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[HostingEnvironmentException: Failed to access IIS metabase.] System.Web.Configuration.MetabaseServerConfig.MapPathCaching(String siteID, VirtualPath path) +3500378 System.Web.Configuration.MetabaseServerConfig.System.Web.Configuration.IConfigMapPath.MapPath(String siteID, VirtualPath vpath) +9 System.Web.Hosting.HostingEnvironment.MapPathActual(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean permitNull) +163 System.Web.CachedPathData.GetConfigPathData(String configPath) +382 System.Web.CachedPathData.GetConfigPathData(String configPath) +243 System.Web.CachedPathData.GetApplicationPathData() +68 System.Web.CachedPathData.GetVirtualPathData(VirtualPath virtualPath, Boolean permitPathsOutsideApp) +3393699 System.Web.Configuration.RuntimeConfig.GetLKGRuntimeConfig(VirtualPath path) +189

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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.210





It is kinda of frustrating that I can not find a noob guide (since that is what I am).  Everything assumes that I have done this before and skips out of the what to do to set it up.  Can someone please help me??!!??

Ok, I forgot to mention the part of the IIS.  I have it installed on all the machines I tried.  I also have the 4.3 install that I am using and the command line is with the express edition, the only way I seem to know how to do it.   The third machine I tried it on gave me some weird error about machine key.


IIS:

I created a new virtual directory and then gave it premission as a website via the properties of the windows exporer.  I then set the asp to 2.0 and removed the documents and replaced them with Default.aspx.  I also made it run scripts and exicutables.


Full sql cmds:

SQLCMD - S (local)\SQLEXPRESS -E
CREATE DATABASE DNN
GO
CREATE LOGIN DNN WITH PASSWORD='DotNetNuke2',DEFAULT_DATABASE=DNN
GO
USE DNN
CREATE USER DNN FOR LOGIN DNN
GO
EXEC SP_ADDROLEMEMBER N'db_owner', n'DNN'
GO

web.config (well the part that I changed):

<connectionStrings>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express
    <add
      name="SiteSqlServer"
      connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|DNN.mdf;"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" /> -->
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005 -->
    <add
      name="SiteSqlServer"
      connectionString="Server=(local);Database=DNN;uid=DNN;pwd=DotNetNuke2;"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  
  </connectionStrings>
  <appSettings>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express - kept for backwards compatability - legacy modules 
    <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|DNN.mdf;"/> -->
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005 - kept for backwards compatability - legacy modules -->
    <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Server=(local);Database=DNN;uid=DNN;pwd=DotNetNuke2;"/>
  
    <add key="InstallTemplate" value="DotNetNuke.install.config" />
    <add key="AutoUpgrade" value="true" />
    <add key="InstallMemberRole" value="true" />
    <add key="ShowMissingKeys" value="false" />
    <add key="EnableWebFarmSupport" value="false" />
    <add key="EnableCachePersistence" value="false"/>
    <add key="HostHeader" value="" /><!-- Host Header to remove from URL so "www.mydomain.com/johndoe/Default.aspx" is treated as "www.mydomain.com/Default.aspx" -->
    <add key="RemoveAngleBrackets" value="false" /><!--optionally strip angle brackets on public login and registration screens-->
    <add key="PersistentCookieTimeout" value="0" /><!--use as persistent cookie expiration. Value is in minutes, and only active if a non-zero figure-->
  </appSettings>

that cmd



C:\>aspnet_regiis -i
'aspnet_regiis' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.