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I've followed the dnn 7 installation videos to make a single server install. The only slight deviation I made was to create a database up front as demonstrated in the video. I'm using SQL Server Express rather than the full-fat SQL Server, but I followed the install for full fat SQL Server. I did this because I don't understand the conventional way of using SQL Sever Express, when I try to attach to the MDF file from SSMS it tells me that it's locked - even after stopping IIS!

Anyhow, for my first installation using the dnndev.me domain everything worked great.

I then tried to repeat the installation but this time using a real domain - you can see it at www.rotherweb.co.uk. The problem is that the site always gets redirected to the page gettingstarted.aspx.

I have pasted output from Fiddler below:

Result Protocol Host URL Body Caching Content-Type Process Comments Custom

1 200 HTTP www.rotherweb.co.uk /Home.aspx 6,839 private text/html; charset=utf-8 chrome:4200
2 200 HTTP www.rotherweb.co.uk /Resources/Shared/scripts/DotNetNukeAjaxShared.js?=1357564157543 3,393 application/x-javascript chrome:4200
3 200 HTTP www.rotherweb.co.uk /GettingStarted.aspx 7,793 private text/html; charset=utf-8 chrome:4200
4 200 HTTP www.rotherweb.co.uk /Resources/Shared/scripts/widgets.js?=1357564157763 3,732 application/x-javascript chrome:4200

I have noticed that the working website for dnndev.me has sub folders of \portals\0\images , \cache, \Templates, \Users . However the failed website contains only \portals\0\cache. So this would suggest something failed during the installation but when I click to see the installation logs I get "No Installation Log"

Could anyone please help?

Thanks in advance

Rob.

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  • Do you have any other files in the Portals/0 folder, such as portal.css? – Chris Hammond Jan 07 '13 at 18:49
  • Thanks for trying Chris. I have since deleted that website and managed to get another site built by changing the host folder of the database to the default c:\program files(x86)\Microsofoft SQL Server etc... – Rob Bowman Jan 11 '13 at 08:55
  • I'm having this issue and the only other files in Portals/0 are Awesome-Cycles-Logo.png and Logo.png. There are directories for Cache, Images, Templates, Users. – EfficionDave Jan 29 '13 at 19:50

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I managed to work around this by creating a database in the default folder c:\program files(x86)\Microsofoft SQL Server etc...

I'm not sure why having the db a different folder caused a problem because I had granted file permission to the folder for the account of the host app pool. If I get chance I will go back and dig a little more.

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