Geez!!! this is a complete effing disaster!  I gave up expecting some help from here, and since I have a client portal site that was partially complete and they are all over me right now, I thought I could at the very least, add all the content back by hand into a useable version of dnn, so I went for 4.9.5.  after multiple database, script, MAC errors, etc. etc. I finally got the scripts to run but... wouldnt you know it? YOU CANT RUN TWO INSTALLS OF DNN ON THE SAME IIS !!!  

Who do I pay to help get this fixed??? contact me at mark87011@gmail.com 

i have iis 6, win 2003 server, i own the server so i have complete control,  the 5.1.1 install is messed up, so all my sub portals are also.   I found on the forum that I cant have two dnn web configs as is now the case.  the 4.9 install meant as a temporary measure gives me the following message:

DotNetNuke supports multiple portals from a single database/codebase. It accomplishes this by converting the URL of the client browser Request to a valid PortalID in the Portals database table. The following steps describe the process:

 

1. Web Server Processing
   
   • When a web server receives a Request from a client browser, it compares the file name extension on the target URL resource to its Application Extension Mappings defined in IIS.
   • Based on the corresponding match, IIS then sends the Request to the defined Executable Path ( aspnet_asapi.dll in the case of ASP.NET Requests ).
   • The aspnet_isapi.dll engine processes the Request in an ordered series of events beginning with Application_BeginRequest.
2. HttpModule.URLRewrite OnBeginRequest ( UrlRewriteModule.vb )
   
   • The Request URL is parsed based on the "/" character
   • A Domain Name is constructed using each of the relevant parsed URL segments.
     
     Examples:
     
     URL: http://www.domain.com/default.aspx = Domain Name: www.domain.com
     URL: http://209.75.24.131/default.aspx = Domain Name: 209.75.24.131
     URL: http://localhost/DotNetNuke/default.aspx = Domain Name: localhost/DotNetNuke
     URL: http://www.domain.com/virtualdirectory/default.aspx = Domain Name: www.domain.com/virtualdirectory
     URL: http://www.domain.com/directory/default.aspx = Domain Name: www.domain.com/directory
   • Using the Domain Name, the application queries the database ( PortalAlias table - HTTPAlias field ) to locate a matching record.
     
     Note: If there are multiple URLs which correspond to the same portal then you can add multiple records to the PortalAlias table pointing to the same portal (PortalId).
     
     Note: If you are installing the application to a remote server you must modify the HTTPAlias field value for the default record in the PortalAlias table according to the rules defined above.