I have read, reread, and followed the instructions in the "Professional DotNetNuke 4" book.  I cannot open the portal with anything other than Visual Web Developer Express.  I desperately need help.

I downloaded 4.3.5.  I have a Windows 2003 server running SQLexpress 2005.  The IP address to the server is 192.168.1.5.  The database is called "DotNetNuke" and the account set up is "DotNetNuke".  This account has dbo permissions.  The folders that the website is located in ("c:\websites\DotNetNuke\website") has permissions set per the book.  Additionally, I have enabled "everyone" to full permissions, just in case I made a permissions error.  I renamed release.config to web.config and typed in the correct connection lines.  The IIS server points all port 8080 traffic to c:\websites\DotNetNuke\website.

I used Visual Web Developer Express 2005 to run the installation and it went fine.  I then accessed the portal and logged in as host.  From there, I set the portal alias (host, portals) to a number of items.  One of the portal aliases is "192.168.1.5:8080".

I tested the IIS server by going to my laptop (not the server) and entering the URL http://192.168.1.5:8080/logo.gif" and the DotNetNuke logo appears.   I then went back into Visual Web Developer and was able to access the root portal again.  Everything looks like it worked.

When I tried to access the portal from the laptop using http://192.168.1.5:8080, I received a 404 error page.  When I tried any of the other aliases, I continue to see the Error 404 page (file not found).

What is going on?  Why does it not work outside Visual Web Developer?   I know the IIS server is configured to point to the website folder.  I know the database is working, since in VWD Express 2005, I can access the portal.

How can I access the site from another machine?