When I installed dotnetnuke I made it clear that it would be running at http://localhost:8008 on my server, because I already
have a number of websites running on that server.  However, although the install appears to have worked, it constantly removes the :8008 from the url - so for example, even though I start at http://localhost:8008/Default.aspx when I try to login it tries to go to http://localhost/login.aspx and so I type in http://localhost:8008/login.aspx but then it redirects to http://localhost/home.aspx so again I have to rewrite it as http://localhost:8008/home.aspx
and I have to type it in myself to get dotnetnuke to work - this is of course completely unworkable - so I assume this will be fixed
pretty soon, I assume it is a known issue - but just in case it isnt how do I find out?

This is a known isse with respect to non-standard port #'s and friendlyurl's in DNN.
In web.config you can configure an installation to use non-standard (non-port 80) ports by doing the following changes:

In web.config search for humanfriendly and change it to searchfriendly;
<friendlyUrl defaultProvider="DNNFriendlyUrl">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="DNNFriendlyUrl" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Url.FriendlyUrl.DNNFriendlyUrlProvider, DotNetNuke.HttpModules" includePageName="true" regexMatch="[^a-zA-Z0-9 _-]" urlFormat="searchfriendly" />
      </providers>


Enable port number:

<!-- set UsePortNumber to true to preserve the port number if you're using a port number other than 80 (the standard) -->
    <add key="UsePortNumber" value="true" />

---

Ken Grierson
DotNetNuke Corporation
Test Lead