I have tried for several days to install dnn 4.3.7 to my website at www.smith-fenner.com/mydnn

After reading all information I could find on the web and in the forums, I still haven't figured it out. I even downloaded and tried the Project:Installer version.08 and still could not get it to install, yes it installed to my desktop, but I don't have Asp 2.0 nor do I have IIS. I don't need (at least I don't think so) I don't want to install it locally, I want to install it to my website.

I unzipped the dnn 4.3.7 source zipfile to my computer, copied & renamed release.config to web.config and then made the changes necessary regarding my sql server connections, set up my database, etc.and then copied it all to my website http://www.smith-fenner.com/mydnn and then opened my browser and pointed to the site: http://www.smith-fenner.com/mydnn and then received an error:

  Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="Off"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Server Error in '/mydnn' Application.

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Runtime Error

I had already fixed this in my web.config file, so I am perplexed.

Yes, I am manually installing on my GoDaddy hosting account (deluxe version) and have read all the forums and post regarding GoDaddy. That is why I am doing a manual install and did set up my virtual directory with the all the boxes checked. Because I had utilized the auto install offered by GoDaddy and have been having no problems until a few days ago when my site went down and so far they cannot get it back up and neither can I. it is at www.smith-fenner.com/home - kept getting a timeout

So, if anyone has any ideas please help.

I can post my web.config if needed. I really need to get this up and running since my other site went down.

WOW, I finally manually installed Godaddy 4.3.7 (install version) on my GoDaddy Shared Hosting site in it's own directory off the root.

Maybe others would like to know how this was accomplished.

Well, do I ever feel like an idiot. I finally figured out (possibly) what I was doing wrong. When I created the virtual directory using Direcotry Management in the GoDaddy control panel and set up the permissions, I would then go to my website via ftp and not seeing the directory I had just created I would create it then ftp my unzipped DNN 4.3.7 install to that directory and then point my browser to it to run the install and of course it was not working.

This time what I did was create a new virtual directory, but did not manually create the directory using FTP. Instead I would go to the directory where my unzipped install version of DNN was on my local computer and then ftp it all to my website and set the location to ftp to to ftp://www.mysite.com/virtualdirectory and let my ftp install to the virtual directory.

What I was finding was that my virtual directories were hidden to me until after an ftp to it. The GLOWING realization was a previous install that showed the following after the ftp: www.mysite/virtualdirectory/virtualdirectory_that_I_created_manually_using_ftp and then it hit me, a Virtual directory is like the ones that Godaddy uses that are not visible to me and what i was doing was uploading my files to another subdirectory of the same name as my virtual directory under THE virtual directory and of course the permissions were not correct for THAT directory.

I hope this all makes since, let me know if anyone experienced the same problem or if I am the only "slow" one in the bunch.

Atleast my site is working now. Now, of course I need to figure out how to move my content and data from my GoDaddy installed DNN 4.3.5 to my manually installed DNN 4.3.7 in my own directory on my website: http://www.smith-fenner.com/b . My old site that was installed by GoDaddy is at http://www.smith-fenner.com/home

If anyone has anyone comments, suggestions please let me know because i want to try to move as much content as possible, plus it would help to know what I steps I would need to take. I have looked at Template Export and also module content import/export. But have not tried anything as yet because I am still jittery about my install. I don't want to mess it up.

Also, learned that I cannot be logged into  both of my portals at the same time. I don't understand this  but I figure it has to do with something like the passing of the user id to memory or something. I had my old portal up in one browser window and my new portal up in another browser window and was going to copy data from one to the other using copy / paste of the html code in the html/Text modules. I also want to transition my users from the old portal to the new portal.

Again, thanks for all the support and replies. Please, again, let me know some feedback. Sorry about the long post.