Good afternoon
After a couple day's attempts to get the source version to install and run, I decided to simplify and try the basic "Install" instead. But I am having numerous problems, and I thought I'd ask the community for help...
For my "development" environment, I do not have IIS, but I do have MS Visual Studio 2005 (SQL Server Express, built-in webserver)
In a nutshell,
- I downloaded "DotNetNuke_04.05.03_Install.zip" and "DotNetNuke_04.05.03_StarterKit.zip"
- I ran the StarterKit, everything went fine
- I unzipped the contents of the Installer into a directory (call it DNN for now)
- I open VS and OpenProject, and select the DNN directory
- I "Build Website", and everything looks good
- I Ctrl-F5 to run the website, and after it finishes loading, I encounter my first problem...
It tries to load the default page, but obviously the application detects it has never been installed before so it shoots me to Install/InstallWizard.aspx. But the problem is that the GUI does not look as expected... The bitmaps/images are not loading, and the stylesheet does not seem to be loading either.
But I can't see anything immediately wrong (view|Source in IE reveals the location of the image files, and navigating directly works for those files).
So I just choose Custom Setup and press the text-button Next.
Again, the stylesheet and bitmaps don't show, but I click Test Permissions (all OK) followed by Next
Again, the stylesheet and bitmaps don't show, but I enter an ObjectQualifier, and click Next
Here I have waited over 1/2 hour (no, not glued to my seat... thankfully it was lunchtime), and during that time the progress bar gleefully showed its progress, while my CPU usage was at nil.
A quick peek at the database during this process revealed a "Version" table and three stored procs related to Version, but that's it. No web feedback on progress, nothing. I read the docs, I looked at the video provided, nada.
Is IIS a requirement for DNN development?
Once I get this "simple" install version running, I'll start on my Source questions 
Dekker