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2/8/2006 9:22 AM
 

I do believe I have found where you are running into problems Patrick. 

Looking at the file structure of the Go Daddy hosting I realized that you are taking the root folder literally, which is not wrong of you.  You should be doing all the operations within the root web folder.  The name of this folder is your username.  When you look at the folder structure the root folder is "\".  But you should be uploading and using the folder "\FirstFolder".  On my account this is my username as I have only one hosting account.

I expect that the purpose of having the "\" accessible as a folder is for when you have multiple websites or hosting accounts.  It would then contain more than one folder, each of which would be the root web folder for that website domain.

I hope this helps with your setup.  Please let us know how it turns out.

 
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2/9/2006 4:49 PM
 
Like several others here, I spent the last couple days playing with getting DNN running on the root of my GoDaddy hosting.  Also like others, I ran into various snags.

1) SQL Express one by default - easy enough fix
2) Missing SiteUrls.config - copied from CONFIG folder
3) Then the dreaded message you have here.

After checking, and rechecking, countless times trying to delete and recreate everything, it was certainly a reproducable problem.  (Even e-mailed Michael to see of he had any other ideas.)

Then I remembered that Michael had an installation package on his site for GoDaddy, so I used that one, and poof - worked like a champ!  (Thanks again Michael!) 

OK, though his help, determined it wasn't anything in his package per se - but that I used HIS web.config file.  To make a long story a little shorted, I did a "copy & paste" of the SQL server name into my web.config file.  When I looked at it onscreen, it looked fine.  However, when I printed the config to compare it to Michaels, I realized that there was an extra linefeed in there.  I'd have to guess I'm not the only one to copy & paste that info! 

So, I deleted everything again, (including the SQL database, and all the folders & content), and started over. I deleted all the extra spaces on my connection strings, so that each string was all on one line, rather then span lines.  Made sure the sitesurl.config was there, and hit the site.  Install went through perfectly! 

muldune6910 wrote


If using Windows 2000 - IIS5
- the {Server}\ASPNET User Account must have Read, Write, and Change Control of the virtual root of your website

If using Windows 2003 - IIS6
- the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE User Account must have Read, Write, and Change Control of the virtual root of your website

 
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2/13/2006 1:49 PM
 
I'm also having permission problems with the beginning of the install where it tries to write changes to web.config.  I got past an error where needed to have write perms in the Config folder to create some backup files.  Are you guys modifying the install.vb file or something to make it skip writing to the web.config?

I'm in dire need of help. 
I'd really like to get this working off of my web root.  I hate having to use the subdirectory.

Scott
 
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2/13/2006 2:58 PM
 
MichaelWinter wrote

I do believe I have found where you are running into problems Patrick. 

Looking at the file structure of the Go Daddy hosting I realized that you are taking the root folder literally, which is not wrong of you.  You should be doing all the operations within the root web folder.  The name of this folder is your username.  When you look at the folder structure the root folder is "\".  But you should be uploading and using the folder "\FirstFolder".  On my account this is my username as I have only one hosting account.

I expect that the purpose of having the "\" accessible as a folder is for when you have multiple websites or hosting accounts.  It would then contain more than one folder, each of which would be the root web folder for that website domain.

I hope this helps with your setup.  Please let us know how it turns out.

 

I too have been slogging thru installing DNN 4.02 on GoDaddy at the “root” level; i.e. typing in www.myWebSite.com invokes DNN.

 

I have used 3 sources to do this: 1) This thread, 2) the asp.net instructions, 3) DotNetNuke Instillation Guide.  ALL 3 are needed to piece together all the steps needed to do this task.  NO ONE source has all the answers, sadly.

 

I am ready to ftp my DNN to my “root” directory and I am confused with where to ftp to.  Under my “root” GoDaddy I have the following folders/files:

 

Folders:

Bin

Desktopmodules

Portals

Stats

 

Files:

Gdform.asp

Gdform.php

Welcome.html

 

Do I copy each of DNN’s folders and files to the “root” above?

 

So I copy (from my hard drive):

Admin

App_code

Bin

Components

Providers

403-3.GIF

Web.CONFIG

 

(Please note the conflicting folders “bin”.  Do I copy the contents from my hard drive ftp’ed to the bin folder on GoDaddy?

 

OR OR OR OR OR

 

Do I do somehow create a magical “\rootfile”; where rootfile might be the user name I supplied when setting up the GoDaddy site like PerryM. 

 

So do I set up a “/PerryM” directory and copy all the DNN files into that directory?

 

Thanks, hopefully I’m not the only confused neophyte struggling thru this confusing/convoluting installation process.

 

I love DNN just hate the installation process which reminds me of the 1980’s machine coding of my IMSI Heath Kit PC.  (I personally would rather punch in hex code than slog thru this installation process for the rest of the week).

 

Thanks for any help rendered – I appreciate your suggestions/help.

 

PerryM

 


Perry
 
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2/13/2006 3:13 PM
 
pillbowen wrote

5.  DNN attempted to install, but hit this error:

Could not find file 'd:\hosting\mysite\Providers\DataProviders\SqlDataProvider\DotNetNuke_template.mdf'.

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.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'd:\hosting\mysite\Providers\DataProviders\SqlDataProvider\DotNetNuke_template.mdf'.

6.  Here is a copy of my connectionString:

<connectionStrings>

<add

name="SiteSqlServer"

connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;"

providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

connectionStrings>

<appSettings>

<add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;"/>

Note:  Last line is one continuous line ...  not broken in web.config ... and I have checked and checked again the DB name, uid, and pwd ... 

 

7.  Can anyone see a problem with my connection string or is the cause of the problem because I am attempting set DNN up in the root directory?  Patrick, is this the same error you receive when you attempt to load DNN 4.02 to the root directory?

 

Ackeis

Your Connection string is incorrect.  Please use this connection string and replace the indicated area's with the proper values:

<connectionStrings>

<add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Enter_Server_Urn;Database=Enter_Database_Name;uid=Enter_UserId;pwd=Enter_Password;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

</connectionStrings>

<appSettings>

<add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Server=Enter_Server_Urn;Database=Enter_Database_Name;uid=Enter_UserId;pwd=Enter_Password;" />

</appSettings>

 
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