I have installed DNN before so I thought this would be easy :) Hopefully someone can give me a pointer to see if I stupidly missed a step somewhere:

This is a fresh new install on a VMWare virtual machine. I installed MS SQL 2000 and then DNN 4.9.4 and it went through install wizard process.

Then we decided to use MS SQL 2005.

So I blew the virtual machine away and recreated it. Installed Windows 2003 and MS SQL 2005 Standard and then unpacked DNN 4.9.4.

I created the database. I tested the login/password via ODBC and it worked. The database checked out okay.

I unpacked the DNN 4.9.4 into a folder and gave the Network Service account full control to that folder.

I tested out IIS 6.0 and it got to the default iisstart.htm web page fine.

I created a virtual directory and pointed to the right directory. I added default.aspx to the Documents. Made sure ASP.NET is pointing to 2.0. Virtual directory has both scripts and executables permissions.

I edited web.config at the 2 locations for database access.

I even restarted the virtual machine.

But every time I try to get to http://localhost/public/ or http://localhost/public/default.aspx I keep getting the fun 404 page. I can browse directly to a text or image file at that virtual directory so I know IIS is working fine.

I have trashed everything and started over, following the readme and instructions line by line. Still the fun 404.

Anything else I am missing?

Thank you in advance for your help.

-michael

Thanks for responding.

I changed IIS's default web site to point to my D:\DotNetNuke directory.

I removed the virtual directory that I created.

I made sure default.aspx is the only option in the Documents tab.

I restarted IIS.

I am still getting the 404 error.

This is most bizarre. I have done this several times before and they all worked fine.

Thanks!

-michael