I have downloaded the lasted DotNetNuke Community Edition on my work computer (Win 7) and installed IIS. I have created the new website by running Microsoft WebMatrix and everything works correctly so far. However now that I have finished creating the web site I am having trouble loading it into IIS and running it locally. (not sure if it the right term but run it without having to run M WebMatrix. Note my computer is already connected to a server admin4.domain.local
I have place the website into C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Nuke and in IIS Manager under the Default Web Site
added Application (Alias: Nuke, Application Pool: Classic .Net appPool, Path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Nuke). I haven't adjusted any of the bindings and when I click browse *:80 which takes me to
http://localhost/Nuke or (
http://admin4.domain.local/nuke), DotNetNuke Installation Wizard - Version 05.06.01 appears. Now I have read various forums on having to create a database first so I have downloaded SQL Server Management Studio onto my computer but can not log in to create a new database. The only database I can create is SQL Server Compact Edition which creates C:\inetpub\wwwroot\Nuke\App_Data\MyDatabase#1.sdf in the folder. When I get to Configure Database Connection I am not sure exactly what I have to enter.
Now I have tried this same process on the actual server but when I log into SQL Server Management Studio I can only log into domain/sbsmonitoring which does not allow me to create a new database.
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All I am trying to do is setup an Internal Website that can be accesses by other computers on the network. I am not sure whether this can be setup and run from my computer or whether I have to set this up on the actual server itself.
This is my first crack at it so any help would be useful.