I just installed nuke and the first time I ever clicked the login button took me to localhost which gave me a error. I thought if might have something to do with the formsauth but I didn't see the redirect. The webconfig is basically the release.config since I am using sqlexpress.

Thanks for your feedback Mitchel. I restarted the server and it seemed to work, but then I noticed that the html model was not loaded. I think something happened during the install. I blew the whole thing away and started over.