Below is a step by step installation procedure to install DotNetNuke portal version 3.x on our server.
To have DNN 3 installed, you need to have one MSSQL database. Please backup all your existing files before you done any DNN installation.
Installation Instructions
A) Getting DotNetNuke and Uploading to Webserver
- Download DotNetNuke from http://www.DotNetNuke.com
- Upload the zip file from FTP, and then later on unzip the file using Copanel's File Manager.
- After that move all the files using File Manager from unzipped folder to the root folder (public_html) of your website.
- Create a new Database from your copanel.
- Set the read and write permission for ASP.net,IUSR and IWAM for the root folder (public_html)
For more info on how to set read and write permission, please refer to http://services.seekdotnet.com/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=145
B) Customizing the web.config file
- Rename the Release.config to web.config.
- Open the Web.config file (under root) with any text editor.
- Update the database connection information to the database that you created in previous steps.
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-Update the highlighted fields with your account information
-Add "Trusted_Connection=False" option
-We also recommend modifying the objectQualifier option in the section. The objectQualifier will be prepended to the table names. For example, setting it to "DotNetNuke3" will result in table names like DotNetNuke3_Users. This prevents naming conflict from other tables that you may have in your database.
-To avoid any conflicts, we would highly recommend using a fresh database for the application install.
C) DotNetNuke Setup
- Open your browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com/ where you install DotNetNuke
- DotNetNuke will setup all the database objects when it first loads. This process MAY run for several minutes. DO NOT hit the stop button on the browser.
- Remember to set read and write permission as mentioned above, or you might get error when DNN try to run for the first time.
