Hi,

This is a re-post. As my original post was so delayed, its on page 5 and seems to get no attention :-((.

The system will not accept that my 'Network Service' account has FULL CONTROL.

I have actually been successfully using dnn for many years now, BUT I am just trying to install it onto a brand-new hosted server (2003 web edition), and just cannot get it to install.

I have checked network service access so many times - it has full control over the whole website.

I checked that my app pool is running under network service

I checked that web.config is not read only

I get : Access to the path 'D:\WebSites\Sainsburys\Website\web.config' is denied - although its not denied for read as its reading my db settings fine

BUT if I press the Return to Site - I can (not always) get past this and then get : The stored procedure 'dbo.js_GetPortalAliasByPortalID' doesn't exist

It has accessed my database and added 3 SP's plus one Table - all using my configured qualifier (js).

I have cleaned out the folder and tried a few times with 4.7.7 and 4.6.2 and even 4.5.5.

I have deleted and recreated the database as well - many times.

Anyone got an idea what is going on here please ??. Normally takes me about 10 minutes to deploy a new DNN but this time I'm well stuck - for 5 days now :-((.

NB DotNet2 is as pre-installed with the OS and is at SP1 - in case this makes any odds - although dll versions report as 50727.1433 on this machine and a sister machine which has been working for months - but DNN probably started out below 4.6.2 originally.

Yes I have also ensured that the IIS setting calls for asp.net 2.0.50727.

Short on ideas now :-O

Thanks - hopefully

Graham

Erik,

Exactly - I figured that I have done all the usual things. Yes I have verified that anonymous access is fine (Read&Execute, List and Read). I also added a small test htm page to the folder and can access that just fine, locally and remotely.

As stated I have done this stacks of times but this one has me stumped :-((.

I 'suspect' that its going to be some additional security as this is a newer OS than any previously used - and comes with IE7 as standard - OR - my hosting provider has done something strange during setup. The Internet Guest Account is not in the usual form, and is IUSR_DEDTEST01 instead of the usual server name - but the config looks OK to me :-O

Thanks for your comments though - maybe someone else has some ideas :-O.

Graham

if the IUSR needs write access to the portal folder, there is a misconfiguration and a security issue. I strongly suggest to check the settings!!!