I have been trying to set up a module development environment on my Windows 7 system. It has IIS7 on it as well asn MS SQL 2005 (not express, not 2008), and Visual Studio 2008,
I followed the builtin instructions as well as the instructions here in numerous attempts:
http://www.adefwebserver.com/DotNetNukeHELP/DNN4_DevelopmentEnvironment_Source/
In all cases I get to a successful DNN install and then go to visit my site. I get the home page with one word on it: "Sponsors" below the red "Home" link. And when I click on "Login" I get the skin with a picture of a page with a padlock on it, but no login form. images/icon_authentication_32px.gif. If I go to register, I get the three blue people, but no register form.
I'm stumped. I am wondering if there is something arcane in my IIS7 configuration that might make ASP.NET not properly load the form. I've looked at the source of the page and there's no form anywhere on there to log in to. It's as if the login and registration modules were deleted from the page or something. But they weren't - it's a fresh install of DNN from source.
This doesn't happen when I install a non-source DNN package either, and I have a separate DNN installation on the same machine under a different virtual directory and different database (obviously) that works just fine even after installing this new host. (The other DNN install is a mirror of my production server to aid in deployment). It only seems to be happening with the source install / build.
This last time I installed it with a custom configuration and installed ALL the modules except for the Active Directory one cause I was afraid that maybe that might be messing things up somewhere.
Help?
Thanks!
Mike