DETAILS
Below is a step by step installation procedure to install DotNetNuke portal version 2.x on OISSite.com servers.
Note the installation procedure is only a guideline.
We do not support the DotNetNuke Portal software. If you run into installation problems, you are welcome to use our community forum for peer support or use the ASP.net forum at:
http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?tabindex=1&ForumID=90.Installation Instructions
A) Getting DotNetNuke and Uploading to Webserver
- Download DotNetNuke from http://www.DotNetNuke.com
- Extract the content to your local machine
B) Customizing the web.config file
This step is only necessary if you intend to use DNN with MS SQL database backend. Skip to Step C if you want to use MS Access as database backend.
- Open the Web.config file (under root) with any text editor.
- Edit the line
<data defaultProvider="AccessDataProvider" >
to
<data defaultProvider="SqlDataProvider" >
- Update the database connection information
<add name = "SqlDataProvider"
type = "DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider"
connectionString = "Server=<localhost>;Database=<DB_NAME>;uid=<User_Name>;pwd=<DB_password>;"
providerPath = "~\Providers\DataProviders\SqlDataProvider\"
objectQualifier = "DotNetNuke"
databaseOwner = "dbo"
/>
Update the highlighted fields with your account information.
Note: objectQualifier will be prepended to the table names. You can leave it blank or set it as whatever you wish.
Note: To avoid any conflicts, we would highly recommend using a fresh database for the application install.
C) Upload all the files to your site. We recommend uploading DotNetNuke into a subdirectory. We DO NOT recommend uploading DotNetNuke to your root directory.
D) Create a Web Application
- Logon to your control panel (http://cp.oissite.com:8086)
- Navigate to the Web Application Tool
- Click on the subdirectory in your account where you uploaded all the DotNetNuke files
- Click Install Application
E) DotNetNuke Setup
- Open your browser and navigate to http://YourHostedDomainName.com/<DotNetNuke subdirectory>
- 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
Note:
1) Warning: If you install DotNetNuke in your root directory, your other .NET applications under the root may fail.
2) For more information on DotNetNuke, you can review the documentation under the /documentation directory
3) For DotNetNuke support, please visit http://www.asp.net/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?tabindex=1&ForumID=90
