Hi Sebastian,

It was so painful that luckily I found a developer with the same problem. He actually created an installer called 'MakeDNNSite'. It basically configured the IIS 7.5, created a directory and set the permissions as well as create (or you can create a blank Database) on SQL Server 2008. I had to do the setup over 5 times because it did not want to install the Database Scripts. It was stuck at installing version 5.0.0 and then cause an error. I was googling with the error message until I found a thread. It suggested to set the database using the 'sa' SQL authentication and once the Datascript Scripts succeed and install, change the Connection string to the user id/password created.

After a brutal 8+ hours I finally installed DotNetNuke 5.6 on Windows 7. I made sure to check all permissions that were set so in the future I can try to replicate installing DotNetNuke but manually, not through an installer.

Below is the Youtube of the MakeDNNSite:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mugOx3RgzQo

To help others, the installer was found on the below site:

"A simple example of how to install DotNetNuke onto a Windows 7 System Using MakeDNNSite. MakeDNNSite can be downloaded from http://www.mikevdm.com/"

there should be no need to adopt the connection string for installation, but you need to create the blank database yourself and grant dbOwner permission for the account being used.

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Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

   

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