Thank you very much, Allan. Very detailed instructions. Appreciate it.

Alex

>Hi Alex,
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>Try these steps with DNN 3.0.12
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>1. After downloading the zip file, unzip to a folder (using my example C:\DevPortals\DNN3012)
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>2. In Enterprise Manager, create a new database "DNN3012".
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>3. In IIS, create a Virtual Directory for C:\DevPortals\DNN3012 (for the other settings just use the default settings in IIS)
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>4. Open DotNetNuke.sln in a text editor
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>The second line from the top is:
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>Project("{F184B08F-C81C-45F6-A57F-5ABD9991F28F}") = "DotNetNuke", "http://localhost/DotNetNuke/DotNetNuke.vbproj", "{79D3BA0F-F76F-4A84-AE7F-C6A01EC247F9}"
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>Change this to:
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>Project("{F184B08F-C81C-45F6-A57F-5ABD9991F28F}") = "DotNetNuke", "http://localhost/DNN3012/DotNetNuke.vbproj", "{79D3BA0F-F76F-4A84-AE7F-C6A01EC247F9}"
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>5. Open DotNetNuke.vbproj.webinfo in a text editor
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>Change:
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><Web URLPath = "http://localhost/DotNetNuke/DotNetNuke.vbproj" />
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>To:
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><Web URLPath = "http://localhost/DNN3012/DotNetNuke.vbproj" />
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>5. Open Web.config
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>Find this line:
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><add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Server=(local);Database=DotNetNuke;uid=;pwd=;" />
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>Change to:
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>add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Server=(local);Database=DNN3012;uid=sa;pwd=whatever;"
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>(substituting your SQL Server userid and password for the database - I just use the sa user id and password for dev purposes with DNN.
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>Next, find this line:
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><compilation debug="false" />
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>To:
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><compilation debug="true" />
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>6. Open the solution file in Visual Studio.
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>7. Right-click on the DotNetNuke project - click Select as startup project.
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>8. Right-click on Default.aspx - click Set as Start Page.
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>9. Rebuild the solution.
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>10. Now you should be able to run the app from your browser with:
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>http://localhost/dnn3012
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>Note: The firts time you go to this localhost URL - it can take awhile for the page to appear - since this is when a script is run to create all the SQL Server database objects.
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>If you need further support, here is an excellent resource. The DNN core team moderates this site:
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>http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?tabindex=1&ForumID=90
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>Most of the problems people seem to encounter are permissions related - there are lots of threads on this at the link above.
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>Hope this helps.
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>Al
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>>Thanks for the reply, Allan. I am using version 2 something. If not for your satisfaction with this tool I am almost ready to throw in the towel. I will download version 3.0.12 and try again.
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>>Alex
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>>>Alex,
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>>>Are you using the latest version of DNN (i.e. 3.0.12)?
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>>>The instructions I have are a bit different depending on whether you are using version 2 or 3. Let me know and I'll try to help you out.
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>>>If you haven't already done so, I'd strongly suggest downloading the latest build from the DotNetNuke website.
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>>>Version 3 has a ton of great features - many of which are great if you plan on presenting this to prospective clients. For instance, while logged in as the administrator of a page in the portal, you can change the place of different elements (i.e. modules) on that page by dragging and dropping the modules - the kind of stuff I never thought I'd be able to do through a browser interface. The first time people see this they are very impressed and quite often just plain blown away ...
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>>>Al
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>>>>Hi Allan,
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>>>>I am trying (again) to get going with dnn in a new machine (Win 2000) which will not have SQL server or visualstudio.net. It has IIS 5 installed.
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>>>>I have tried to follow installation instructions: unzipping dotnetnuke directory, creating virtual site in iis, installing .NET 1.1, and MDAC 2.8, to have the capability of using the access database. However, when I enter http://localhost/dotnetnuke in the browser I get a blank page with a title equal to <%= Title . This bit of code is mentioned in default.aspx, by the way. Nothing else.
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>>>>Can you give me a little handhere,please?
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>>>>Thank you very much.
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>>>>Alex