Hello Ian,
Thanks for the timely response. I guess the best way to word my configuration is creating a dotnetnuke site on top of another dotnetnuke site. So, I have a website configured in IIS at the root of the account (c:\webroot say) with a dotnetnuke installation in place at root and a domain pointer assigned to it (www.mydomain.com). I was wondering if it was possible to create another dotnetnuke site on top of the default web site by using a virtual directory. So, the virtual directory would physically be a subdirectory of the websites root folder (c:\webroot\dnnvirtdir say) and then the virtual dir could simply be appended to my websites domain (e.g. www.mydomain.com/dnnvirtdir say) properly configured in IIS of course. The problem I'm seeing is that installing DNN to the root of my website turns the entire site into an ASP.Net application and the web.config file seems to be interfering with additional installs in a virtual directory format. Below is the html I receive when installing the supplementary instance but It doesn't seem to be a well defined error as it changes sporadically from test to test:
<html>
<head>
<title>Runtime Error</title>
<style>
body {font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;font-size: .7em;color:black;}
p {font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;color:black;margin-top: -5px}
b {font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:bold;color:black;margin-top: -5px}
H1 { font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;font-size:18pt;color:red }
H2 { font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;font-size:14pt;color:maroon }
pre {font-family:"Lucida Console";font-size: .9em}
.marker {font-weight: bold; color: black;text-decoration: none;}
.version {color: gray;}
.error {margin-bottom: 10px;}
.expandable { text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold; color:navy; cursor:hand; }
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<span><H1>Server Error in '/dnn' Application.<hr width=100% size=1 color=silver></H1>
<h2> <i>Runtime Error</i> </h2></span>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif ">
<b> Description: </b>An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
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<b>Details:</b> To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".<br><br>
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<code><pre>
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration></pre></code>
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</tr>
</table>
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<b>Notes:</b> The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.<br><br>
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<code><pre>
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration></pre></code>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<br>
</body>
OR
<html>
<head>
<title>Configuration Error</title>
<style>
body {font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;font-size: .7em;color:black;}
p {font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;color:black;margin-top: -5px}
b {font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:bold;color:black;margin-top: -5px}
H1 { font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;font-size:18pt;color:red }
H2 { font-family:"Verdana";font-weight:normal;font-size:14pt;color:maroon }
pre {font-family:"Lucida Console";font-size: .9em}
.marker {font-weight: bold; color: black;text-decoration: none;}
.version {color: gray;}
.error {margin-bottom: 10px;}
.expandable { text-decoration:underline; font-weight:bold; color:navy; cursor:hand; }
</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">
<span><H1>Server Error in '/newdnn' Application.<hr width=100% size=1 color=silver></H1>
<h2> <i>Configuration Error</i> </h2></span>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif ">
<b> Description: </b>An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.
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<b> Parser Error Message: </b>The code subdirectory '/newdnn/App_Code/HTML/' does not exist.<br><br>
<b>Source Error:</b> <br><br>
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<code><pre>
[No relevant source lines]</pre></code>
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<b> Source File: </b> web.config<b> Line: </b> 97
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<b>Version Information:</b> Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.210
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