I uploaded the 5.0 community edition of DNN to my hosting provider and set all the perms i could but when i access the site i get the following on Default.aspx

Object reference not set to an instance of an object. 

The last few lines of the stack are:

Line 81:             ComponentFactory.InstallComponents(New ProviderInstaller("profiles", GetType(DotNetNuke.Security.Profile.ProfileProvider)))
Line 82:             ComponentFactory.InstallComponents(New ProviderInstaller("permissions", GetType(DotNetNuke.Security.Permissions.PermissionProvider)))
Line 83:             Dim provider As DotNetNuke.Security.Permissions.PermissionProvider = DotNetNuke.ComponentModel.ComponentFactory.GetComponent(Of DotNetNuke.Security.Permissions.PermissionProvider)()
Line 84:             If provider Is Nothing Then
Line 85:                 ComponentFactory.RegisterComponentInstance(Of DotNetNuke.Security.Permissions.PermissionProvider)(New DotNetNuke.Security.Permissions.PermissionProvider())

As far as i know, other people with my hosting provider haven't had many issues with the install but im not sure what version they are installing either though. Also, i had put in a helpdesk ticket with them but havent heard anything back yet.

Any input would be great!

I got the same error. Ended up being database connection strings in the web.config.

They have 2 conncection strings setup in <connectionstrings> and <appSettings> but there are additional ones below the "live" ones. long story short, realized that I made my connection string in the commented out section vs. within the proper tags. I corrected for both connection strings and worked.

HTH

Dave

I also had the same thing.  I had inadvertently changed the connection String to  'Name=DotNetNuke'... and AppSettings to  'Key=DotNetNuke'....

I changed then back to use 'SiteSqlServer'  as follows, and it worked:

<

connectionStrings>
    <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=myPC\SQLExpress;Initial Catalog=DNNSkinning;User ID=demo;Password=xxxx" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>

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