I have searched for a resolution for this, and apparently no one has come up with one.  Does anyone know where an installation guide can be found?  I want to install DNN 4.5.3 onto a Win2k3 server box, running SQL2k5 and IIS 6.  But having a lot of troubles getting there.

mrdash,

In my experience, this is a pretty common configuration.....

Quickly -- here are the high level steps that i take to install a new site

create directory with all website files (unzip the dnn package inside)

within IIS create the virtual directory, make sure asp.net 2.0 is selected....add the host header ....etc...

in the file system, add appropriate permissions for the Network Service account to the directory that contains the application (make sure the changes propagate all the way down through the file structure)

set up database through management studio, add user, etc....

modify web config with the appropriate connection string..

and then you should be able to enter the appropriate URL in your browser, if DNS is set up it will hit your IIS and if that is set up it will hit your application, and if the file system permissions are set up and the database connection string works...away you go...it will present you with the installation wizard

hope that helps,

Ian

Unfortunately that document doesn't account for the multiple errors and is vague on some settings.  I have been trying for two days now and 1. the problems are not consistent, 2. there's no documentation that describes work-arounds for the errors.

Going exactly to the document, I get the "Server Error in '/' Application."

and the server shows this in the event log:

Exception information:
    Exception type: SqlException
    Exception message: Could not find stored procedure 'dbo.GetPortals'.

Unfortunate circumstance, but if anyone has any suggestions, I am more than willing to listen.