IT WORKS!

OK... here is what I did differently this time around.

This time I emptied out as much as possible from my 1and1 account.

• Deleted existing database and setup a new one (and did not touch the new one)
• Deleted as many files and folders as I could (Web wouldn't let me delete the logs folder)
• I put the DNN zip in a folder titled OriginalZip and then unzipped using webfiles to the root.
• Webfiles unzips to a folder with the same name as the zip file so I renamed DNNTest
• Downloaded, made specified changes (other postings) to web.config file.  Deleted the copy off the server and re-uploaded.
• Installation was successfull AND DNN works now!

It's been working for a solid 3 hours at the time of this writing, I managed to install additional skins, go through all the host and admin settings, etc etc.  The only time I encounterd an error was when trying to edit a link I had inserted into the links module earlier.

I am new to DotNetNuke. I have been trying to install to a 1&1 MS Hosting Account with little success untill one of the last post in this list. I used webfiles and deleted everything in the root directory except logfiles. I copied the DotNetNuke_4.3.4_install.zip file to root and unzipped it. It created a default dir for the zip file. I then changed the directory name to my domain name. I then made it an application through webfiles and made sure the IUSER and NETWORK user had read, write, modify and read & execute permissions for all files and subdirectories under that dir. I changed the web.config as the 1&1 faq explains how to do for the sql access, I also commented out the sqlexpress lines. It is working with a few hicups but I am still working those out. In the root dir I put a default.asp that redirects to the default.aspx in the new dir.