I have Win 2K3 running a DNN 4.5.3portal attached to a SS2K5 db, and I have access to both web and db servers.

The site runs fine and has a child portal, all is good. I wish to upgrade the portal to 5.1.4 and have done so on my XP Pro development machine. I wish to now upgrade a test version on the live server, but cannot configure IIS 6 correctly to view the default.aspx page either on the network or on the server itself.

The live site IIS configuration is like so in the IIS site properties:

Web Site Tab:

Description: mysitename

IP Address: All Unassigned

TCP Port: 80 SSL Port: 443

Advanced (if I click it):

IP address - Default      TCP Port - 80        Host Header Value: www.mysitename.com

Home Directory Tab:

Local Path: C:\sites\mysitename\www

Application name: Default Application

Starting Point: <mysitename>

Documents Tab:

I have default.aspx and app_offline.htm

Portal alias table:

mysitename.commysitename.com/gsap

From within IIS manager I used to be able to right click on default and app_offline pages to select browse to preview the pages, but now it doesn't work anymore. I get "server timed out". The site loads however from a browser from other machines.

I have uploaded a copy of the site and named the folder mysitedev, and have spent hours configuring it numerous ways in IIS but I cannot get it to load from the server or form the intranet development machine via IP.

What is the correct configuration I should be having for both the main and test site? Please, any help is appreciated greatly.