
In the "Database Name" field enter a name for your database and click OK.Expand the tree on the left-hand side so you can see “Databases”.
Select your desired server from the drop-down list and connect.
Make sure that your database server runs in “mixed authentication mode” (SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode” is checked.) You can find this setting by right-clicking on your server (first node in the SQL Server Management Studio tree on the left), then Properties | Security. Second, create the SQL Server login for that very same database. There are two things you need to do in SQL Server Management Studio. First, create a database. Create the Database, SQL Server Login, and Database User zip file from .Īfter you have logged into, navigate to “Downloads”, select the desired file and save to your C: drive (for our example, I selected and downloaded the 4.5.3 INSTALL (DotNetNuke_04_05_03_Install.zip.)Ģ. Run the DNN install wizard in your favorite web browser.ġ.
Create virtual directory in IIS and configure the website. Create the website folder and unzip the downloaded. Create the database and a SQL Server login. I will cover each individually in more detail below. There are 5 basic steps to a clean install. My local setup consists of a Windows XP Pro machine running IIS 5.1, SQL Server 2005, and the. That’s when I began to get a bigger picture of how DNN works. Once I had a clean install up and running, I was able to go into SQL Server Management Studio (or the like) and actually look at the tables, select on them and see what the install had created. At first, I didn’t understand how the database “fit” into the architecture of a DNN site. As a developer, I like to know what is going on, where it’s going on and who it’s going on with. So for my first post, I decided to detail my experience of learning how to do a local DNN install. One thing that I was very impressed with right from the beginning was the community’s assistance and reassurance of my success. So I may (and will) ask a lot of questions and I DO like feedback. I also realized that I am looking at DNN from a different point of view than someone with years of experience. Welcome to my first contribution to the Seablick Consulting blog! When Tom Kraak first asked me to write a “how-to style” blog post, I was thinking to myself, “what can I offer in regards to DotNetNuke? I’m a newbie!” Then I began to realize how much I have learned in a very short amount of time. In: DotNetNuke, DNN Tips & Tricks | 126 Comments