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Asked: 2026-06-17T08:01:12+00:00

I’ve followed the dnn 7 installation videos to make a single server install. The

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I’ve followed the dnn 7 installation videos to make a single server install. The only slight deviation I made was to create a database up front as demonstrated in the video. I’m using SQL Server Express rather than the full-fat SQL Server, but I followed the install for full fat SQL Server. I did this because I don’t understand the conventional way of using SQL Sever Express, when I try to attach to the MDF file from SSMS it tells me that it’s locked – even after stopping IIS!

Anyhow, for my first installation using the dnndev.me domain everything worked great.

I then tried to repeat the installation but this time using a real domain – you can see it at http://www.rotherweb.co.uk. The problem is that the site always gets redirected to the page gettingstarted.aspx.

I have pasted output from Fiddler below:

Result Protocol Host URL Body Caching Content-Type Process Comments Custom

1 200 HTTP http://www.rotherweb.co.uk /Home.aspx 6,839 private text/html; charset=utf-8 chrome:4200
2 200 HTTP http://www.rotherweb.co.uk /Resources/Shared/scripts/DotNetNukeAjaxShared.js?=1357564157543 3,393 application/x-javascript chrome:4200
3 200 HTTP http://www.rotherweb.co.uk /GettingStarted.aspx 7,793 private text/html; charset=utf-8 chrome:4200
4 200 HTTP http://www.rotherweb.co.uk /Resources/Shared/scripts/widgets.js?=1357564157763 3,732 application/x-javascript chrome:4200

I have noticed that the working website for dnndev.me has sub folders of \portals\0\images , \cache, \Templates, \Users . However the failed website contains only \portals\0\cache. So this would suggest something failed during the installation but when I click to see the installation logs I get “No Installation Log”

Could anyone please help?

Thanks in advance

Rob.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I managed to work around this by creating a database in the default folder c:\program files(x86)\Microsofoft SQL Server etc…

    I’m not sure why having the db a different folder caused a problem because I had granted file permission to the folder for the account of the host app pool. If I get chance I will go back and dig a little more.

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