I am trying to install using the HTTP option.

For some reason, all the modules have the error such as:

Error: Welcome To My Website... is currently unavailable.

Does anyone have an answer to why this is happenening, and a solution?

Thanx!

Eugene

I believe he means in visual studio 2005 eugenelin89 choose to have the code files stored in the IIS wwwroot folders and when the site runs it'll be hosted by IIS instead of visual studio's webserver. I haven't be able to get it to work in HTTP mode because I have IIS 5 and it doesn't like the SiteSqlServer being in the config file twice.

eugenelin89, I think but I am not sure, but I think your second connection string might be wrong in the config file. Sounds like it created all the tables and stored procedures ok, but the older modules that use the old connection string settings can't connect to the database to get their content. Does every module have basically that same error?

I experimented a little more, and still have trouble.  I think it is a problem with my IIS configuration.  Though I now believe this is not strictly a DNN installation problem but a more general IIS issue, perhaps some of you more seasoned developers can help me out... Here is what I did:

- I made a new DNN installation (4.0.2 ) with Visual 2005 and SQL Server 2000.

- I published it to my IIS on my Windows XP, so I assume the IIS version is 5.1.  The folder for the web site is in its own directory under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot

- once it is published, I had to go to IIS Management Console, right click on the folder of my newly created web site, choose "Property," and in the Directory tab under Application Settings click on the "Create" button in order to make the directory a virtual directory.  If I don't do this, I get an error saying "It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level.  This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.
"

- After I clicked the "Create" button, I try to load the web page, and I get the "The page cannot be displayed" and the error "Cannot find server or DNS Error."

I thought of various possibilities, changing the directory to sharing, giving the ASPNET user full access... but still wouldnt fix the problem.

There was this time, long time ago (yesterday afternoon) when I first tried out the idea and didn't really know what I was doing but just attempting various approaches and somehow it work.  I don't know what I did.  But since then it never worked...

Any of you who can offer me some hint I'd really appreciate... I have been struggling with this for two days...

Eugene