Such rash statements might not get you very far.  This advice is coming from someone that has said a lot of rash statements in my day.   What city are you in, I might be able to direct you to some help?  Maybe you can call someone from a local dnn user group.

I agree with you on the Installation document, for novice users that have limited knowledge about SQL server, IIS, ASP.NET, VS2005 or VWD2005 it is very difficult to find a clear walkthrough of all the steps to be taken. Also the list of common errors is far from complete.

I have taken it upon me to rewrite the installation document.. its far easier to point people to a good document, than to keep explaining things over and over

Having said that, if you know what you are supposed to do, installation is extremely easy:

1. unzip the appropriate distro to a directory that will be used by IIS as web root for your site (the appropriate distro is the Install version if this is your first install)
2. Make sure the appropriate users have the appropriate rights on that folder. The IUSR user needs read rights, the IWAM user needs modify rights. On win xp the IWAM user is ASPNET by default, on win 2003 it is NETWORK SERVICE
3. Create a new db in sql server, create a new user, make that user dbowner of the db (this assumes you are using mixed mode authentication on sql server)
4. make sure your sql server can be reached by asp.net (firewalls, enabled protocols etc)
5. rename release.config to web.config in the folder you put dnn in
6. open web.config and make changes to the 2 connectionstrings
7. open IIS admin, create a new site (or virtual directory if that suits you better), point it to the folder you installed dnn in, make sure the site is set to the correct asp.net version  (1.1. for dnn 3.x, 2.0 for dnn 4.x)
8. browse to your site, and watch dnn installing itself

please let me know if these steps do not work for you, if needed you can contact me on msn (support@apollo-software.nl)

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