Hello

I installed DNN on my Vista system with the idea of using DDN to create the basic web site framework and then agumenting the site with other pages(mostly SQL queries) that were developed in Visual Studio(either VS2005 or VS2008).

The DNN site and sample pages built flawlessly and I decided to publish the site and transfer the database to my hosts web server. Thing did not go well even though the site published correctly. I had numerous errors and was told that the only way I can sucessful get DNN up on the host was to run the install wizard on the host.

I was also told that I would have to create a separate folder and publish any of my "custom" pages there and then reference tem from with DNN.

I guess the question is is this infomation correct or was my original approach correct but needed some tweaks. I know I'm trying to have the best of all worlds and still have the site maintainable but that really does not seem that unreasonable.

Any help suggestions or comments would be most welcome.

James

I can not possibly thank you enough for the links you provided. I found the information extremely useful and can not wait to redo ( a first for me) the installation and see if it does not resolve all of my issue ( which I'm sure it will). Assuming this works it would make managing these site a dream and have it actually conform to what I expected.

Again thank you for taking the time to help a very confused soul. I think the biggest error was not adding a portal alias because I'm reasonably use the other steps were preformed correctly.