Hi,

I downloaded the comunity edition of DNN 5 installer and went through the steps provided with SQL server Express type of installation. I am using Windows 2003 server enterprise edition sp2.

Me and my friend are building modules and trying to bring up a e-com site. We have the basic DNN site running and also some pages and controls from two modules.
The intermittent problem I am facing is that, suddenly for some reason, the site when accessed shows the 'DNN Install page' !!?
I do not know what is causing this and if it is because of something incorrect in my installation.
I am afraid to re-install DNN and hence lose all my work.

The strange part is how I fix it,
I delete the DNN virtual directory in IIS and then delete the DNN folder from the \inetpub\...
Then I restore the DNN folder from a backup taken just before the delete and re-create the virtual directory.
and it starts working again ?

1. What is causing this?
2. How can I correct this ?

Please help.

When dnn is unable to access your database - it assumes that it is a new install - and begins the installation process.

You can prevent this happening by making a couple of changes in your web.config
Look for these to keys and change them both to false instead of true

<add key="AutoUpgrade" value="true" />
        <add key="UseInstallWizard" value="true" />

This will turn off the install wizard and the autoupgrade feature.

It wont however deal with the real issue is that your sql server has some performance issues.
At a guess it could be because of paging issues caused by insufficient memory.

Also if you have AVG installed it can also lead to serious performance issues.

Westa

Vijay, default settings are for easy install, but for most stable use, I suggest web.config changes mentioned by Westa before.

---

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

Speed up your DNN Websites with TurboDNN