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How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

Feb 26

Written by: Aderson Oliveira
Friday, February 26, 2010

9min : 49sec

This video will show you how to install DotNetNuke on your computer from start to finish. It will walk you through all different steps and make you aware of the pitfalls.

Video Transcription:

"Hello. My name is Aderson Oliveira and I will be presenting this video for DNN.com on how to install DotNetNuke on your desktop computer. Let's download the DotNetNuke installation. I'm here on the DotNetNuke Website, dotnetnuke.com. From here, I will have to login to the Website and I'm assuming you all have created an account with dotnetnuke.com already.

So go to my username, password. Login to the Website. Once I login successfully to the DotNetNuke Website, I go to downloads. Scroll down and click download community. You're going to use the open source version of DotNetNuke, which is the community edition. You should click download community. Then we select the install package. There are a couple of different packages but we're going to select the installation package.

Save it to my local computer. So here's my installation package I have just downloaded. First thing I'm going to do is, I'm going to cut the installation package. I'm going to go to the root of my computer and to the Inetpub folder and to the wwwroot folder. Here's where you should be using IIS at this point, to run your web server. So here we're going to create the folder that will host the site files of the DNN installation. I'm going to call it DNN523, which is the DNN version. I'm going to paste the installation package.

I'm going to extract the installation files here in this folder. Once the installation files are extracted, then I can... I no longer need the installation package, just delete it. Now we're going to set up this new folder that we have created under wwwroot as an application under IIS. For the purposes of this demonstration, this tutorial, I'm running Windows Vista. I have opened IIS. I'm going to create an application. I'm going to call it DNN523 and the disc or path will be the folder we have just created under Inetpub, wwwroot. DNN523.

So IIS is configured now. I'm going to close IIS now and I'm going to load SQL Server 2008 Express Edition that I have installed on my desktop as well. So I have opened SQL Server Management Studio 2008 Express Edition. I'm going to create the database the will host the database for our new site. I'm going to call it DNN523 and click OK. So the database created and it's empty, of course, because once we get the installation running, the installation will take care of creating all the necessary required tables in our empty database we have just created. I'm going close SQL Server 2008 Express. I'm going to open the local Website that we have just set up under IIS so it can run the installation process.

So here, this is the first screen of the installation process. You're going to select typical installation, then we click "next." Here, the installation process will check for permission problems in terms of site files. Just make sure that you don't have any problems at this stage.

You can go back to the folder that we have created under wwwroot, our application folder DNN523. We can set the permissions of that folder by right clicking the folder, go into properties, under properties, go to security tab. Under the security tab, we go to edit and then we click on add.

Depending on which OS you are using, if it's Vista, if it's XP, Windows 2000, what you need to do is you need to add a secured account called ASP Net if it's Vista and 2000 or Network Service if it's Vista upwards.

So click and check name, hit OK. I'll give to this account full control of the folder. Click OK. Click OK again and the permissions for the folder is done now.

Let's go back to our wizard. So again, it's already saying that the site has passed the permission check so we click next.

So now we're going to set up the database connectivity. The default option selected is SQL server 2008 Express file. We're not going to use this one because we have set up the database in SQL Server Express. We're going to choose the second option, then the database name which will be DNN523. We're not going to use integrated security. We're going to enter the account formation that we use to access the database.

In my case, I'm using SA so you must have an SA password as well or the user that you have set up the database under. You don't set up anything other object qualifier. You can leave that empty. And we click Next. So here you can see the installation is getting started. It's running the scripts. It's creating the database. So it says that it's completed. Let's click Next again.

Now you're going to set up the host account. We can set the host name. I'll leave it as host, the host password. Keep a note of that. For now you don't need to set up the SMTP Information and we can leave that for later. We can always set this up later on. Click next. Now we are prompted to set up the admin account. Once again, keep track of the password. We can set up the owners as well.

You can leave Portal Title as my Website for now. You can always change that later. Click Next again. Now we are prompted with a congratulations message here. Let's click on Finished, Go to Sites. Now we can see that the site is up and running on my desktop.

So just a quick recap. We have installed DNN523 on my desktop and the requirements that you must meet to install DotNetNuke on your desktop is you have to have IIS, which is Internet Information Services. You need to have SQL server 2005 or 2008 Express to be able to install on your desktop.

OK, that's it for now. Thanks."

Note 03/29/2010: I have just tried to install DNN 5.3.1 in a Windows 7 computer and I also had to give full access to the IIS_IUSRS (machine\IIS_IUSRS) to the folder where the site files were located.

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11 comment(s) so far...

Re: How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

It was very helpful

By monty on Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Re: How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

Thanks for watching Monty

By Aderson on Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Re: How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

Hi.

I need to know if the DNN accepts MySQL databases.

Great video man, very helpful and clear...

By Tiago Baroni on Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Re: How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

Hi Tiago,

DotNetNuke comes out of the box with MSSQL data provider. To run DNN with other databases you will need a DotNetNuke Data Provider created specifically for that database, like MySQL.

I had a look around and I found this one:
www.devart.com/dotconnect/mysql/articles/dnn.html

I have never tried it and it doesn't seem to be that up to date as it says it was tested with DNN 4.7, but it may give you a starting point.

By Aderson on Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Re: How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

I want to download this.

By Rasel Ahmmed on Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Re: How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

Rasel, unfortunately the video hosting I use do not allow for download.

By Aderson on Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Re: How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

Hi,

Your video is great but i am facing one problem. during DotNetNuke installation when i configure database connection, i got the following error:
Index #: 0
Source: .Net SqlClient Data Provider
Class: 14
Number: 18456
Message: Sql login failed

I'm using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 express & management studio. during installation it work when i use the default settings i mean "SQL Server 2005/2008 (Express) File" this one but when choose database then i got the error. could you please help me out of this. Thanks

By Fuad on Thursday, December 30, 2010

Re: How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

Hi Fuad,

The error is clear: "Sql login failed" - So you have to make sure that you have the correct SQL user name and password from the user you use to login to the SQLServer instance that you have installed.

Check that and try again.

By Aderson on Thursday, December 30, 2010

Re: How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

i have problem wid installation dnn on my computer system i could'nt fing root directory of my computer system and also not inetpub folder i want to know what is the requirements to install the dnn on my computer system

By sonika on Monday, March 12, 2012

Re: How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

i want to know to what is te requirements to install dot net nuke on my computer system

By sonika on Monday, March 12, 2012

Re: How to install DotNetNuke 5 on your computer - Video #1

Hi Sonika,

You need to have IIS setup on your computer. It seems that you do have it yet.

Here is a more up-to-date version of this video:
www.dnnhero.com/Videos/tabid/59/EntryId/267/How-to-Install-DotNetNuke-6-part-1-of-2-Video-247.aspx

Cheers,
Aderson