Hi, i am trying to create a new working Parent Portal in localhost enviroment. 

I have Windows XP Pro SP2, IIS, MS SQL 2005 Express, DNN 4.8.1. 

The site works great. 

My site runs at http://localhost/dnn841 (the alias). 

I know that in order to create a new Parent Portal i have to login as HOST go to 
Portals and afterwards Add New Portal.
 
In Portal alias i have tried:

1) localhost/elearning (new name of the new Parent Portal), 
2) localhost/dnn841/elearning.

In the first case (localhost/elearning), i get "The page cannot be found"

In the second case (localhost/dnn841/elearning) i get "The page cannot be found" also.

So...

I thought that i had to do some changes in the IIS.

1) I created a virtual directory called elearning. 
     I pointed it to the folder named 1 (the folder that DNN created for the new Parent Portal)

Now, when i browse to localhost/elearning i get "HTTP 403 Forbidden. 
                                                                                         The website declined to show this webpage. 
                                                                                         Most likely causes: This website requires you to log in"

 2) I created a virtual directory named elearning under the existing virtual directory (dnn841)
      I pointed it to the folder named 2 (the folder that DNN created for the new Parent Portal)

Again, "HTTP 403 Forbidden. 
              The website declined to show this webpage. 
              Most likely causes: This website requires you to log in"

What am i not doing right;

Perhaps the wrong thing is that i point the new virtual directories to the folders of the new Parent Portal; 

Perhaps i have to extract the whole zip package of dnn to the folder the virtual directory points at;

Any help with this would be MUCH appreciated.