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How to Install DotNetNuke 4.3.x

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Which Set of Files You Should Download?

First of all, take a deep breath. It’s really not as hard as it appears to be. I remember the first time I installed DotNetNuke, and it was a harrowing and frustrating experience, but resources like DNN Magazine didn’t exist at the time. A beginner doesn’t know where to find installation tutorials—there was only one place to think of to go, the ASP.NET DotNetNuke forums, and while there were and are multitudes of really helpful people there, one still has to be very clear on what the problem is and be able to put the issues into words, which unless you’re a writer, isn’t easy, since words can be so easily misinterpreted. Then there were the issues with the ‘Search’ feature of the old ASP.NET forums (the new forums search on the DotNetNuke.com site yields much more germane results and is highly recommended).

If you don’t know IIS; if you don’t have an idea of how databases work; if you don’t understand permissions in Windows OSs; and especially if you do not focus on the install—you can get away with not knowing too much about the first two, but the last two are very important. This is the crux, I believe, of many installation problems. Users hear about how great DotNetNuke is, sign up, go to the downloads page, and immediately are confronted with, ‘Um, so which zip file do I download?” The bottom line is:

If this is the first time you are installing DotNetNuke, I recommend you use the install as described in the documentation. Do it exactly as it is written. Use the default database (SQLExpress), and take care when you are changing/creating the web.config file. Don’t bother with Object Qualifiers and all the other stuff. The goal is to just get DNN running, so you can see all the things it can do for you.
If you’re missing expertise in one of the above first three subjects (IIS, MSSQL, Permissions), it would be easiest if you just downloaded the Install zips.
If you feel comfortable with Visual Studio, or with Visual Web Developer, download the Starter Kit files. If you’re planning on doing any programming at all, definitely download this file.
If you want to create a website, and you want to learn the DotNetNuke internals and build modules, then the following tutorial will work perfectly (I hope!) If you’ve tried to install DNN before, but failed, definitely give this tutorial a chance to work.

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Andy Hock is the founder of fingerfuel.com

Other areas of interest:

How to Quickly Edit Module Titles and Text
User Accounts new features in DotNetNuke 4.3+
User Accounts and User Settings
Enforcing Terms and Conditions on User Registration
How to Create a Custom Registration Page Using Manage Profile Properties
DotNetNuke User Profile Features v5.4
Security Roles new features
File Manager
Page Management – New Functions DotNetNuke v4.5+
DotNetNuke Authentication Settings (Configuring the Login Page)
DotNetNuke Ribbon Bar Admin Control Panel

Administrator Tutorials:
DotNetNuke Users & Setting the Registration Options
Working with DotNetNuke Security Roles
Specifying The Required Fields Upon User Registration
User Accounts: Adding, Editing, Viewing, Deleting
How to Assign a Security Role to a User Account
DotNetNuke 5 Page and Module Permissions
Assigning Security Roles to Pages and Modules
The Advanced Page Settings
Managing Pages
How to create Page Templates in DotNetNuke
How to create an RSS feed
How to display RSS feeds
How to set up DotNetNuke to accept subscription payments
How to set up email in DotNetNuke
How to send Newsletters in DotNetNuke
Working with Vendors, Banners and Affiliates
How to limit access to the admin menu
Token Replacement in DotNetNuke
Using Favicons within DotNetNuke
DotNetNuke Recycle Bin
How to Reset Host and Admin Login Details
How to Limit Access to Administrator Modules in DotNetNuke 5
How to Limit Modules Available in the Control Panel (Premium Modules)
How to Configure Which Modules Non-Administrators Can Add to a Page
Taxonomy and Folksonomy in DotNetNuke

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