It's working finally...woo hoo!

I opened the website project from the install you pointed me to and
I changed the connection string in the web.config file from:

        <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Server=YODA\SQLEXPRESS;Database=dnn434;Trusted_Connection=True;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>

to the default connection string that comes with a regular install.

    <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

and compiled from VS2005 (though I'm not sure if that was even necessary...I'm net to .NET. Going to test that now.)

I notice that "My Website" is hosted at http://localhost:1178/WebSite/Default.aspx
and this is probably due to VS2005 using dynamic ports. Is it difficult to then publish the web site
on port 80, or where would I start looking in order to do that? (Sorry...I generally use Apache not IIS)


Thanks again for the help.
Brian

Antonio,
Reinstalling ASP.NET worked a treat. It installed the ASPNET user which I was missing all along and that seemed to be
the root of the problem.

Thanks again for your help.
Brian

Describe me all steps  of your  DNN installation