OK. I give up lol.

I cannot seem to get the permissions right on my installation on a local IIS server.

I am using:

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Windows XP Pro

IIS 5.1

SQL Server 2008 Express with Advanced tools

.NET 2.0 and 3.5 both SP1s.

VWD 2008 Express

The latest DNN.

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I have already:

Installed all of the above.

Given the ASPNET account full permssions on the virtual directory.

Uninstalled and re-installed .NET 2.0 and 3.5 both SP1s AFTER everything else since I've read about the register problem. (Of which I had tried iisreg -u and -i and -r several times depending on what any particular website said.

Think thats it but I know ive done so much more hitting wall after wall after wall up to this point.  I've done everything short of uninstall everything and start from scratch.

What does work finally is:

I can load my http://localhost/DotNetNuke and login. (as Host or as Admin)

I installed the Templates for a new module for VWD and created a new module named HelloWorld that was just an empty module.

I renamed the two directories that were ModuleName to HelloWorld.

I rebult using Ctrl-F5 as suggested.

I installed the SQL from the 1.xxx DataProvider as instructed by the tutorial I was using.  No errors.

The next step in the tutorial is to create the module in Module Definitions but when I go to the Module Definitions page I get:

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A critical error has occured.

Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed

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Putsing around the rest of the site fooling around with answers to my dreaded FileIOPermissions error I found on various websites Ive noticed a few other places in my DNN installation that also have FileIOPermissions errors.

So I am convinced I have a permission problem somewhere but I for the life of me have no clue how to find it because every time I search for permissions errors solutions I get the same things over and over again, what I listed above, about registering .NET and about ASPNET account.

Any ideas?

Just for cruds and giggles I went from medium permissions in IIS to full/IIS process but that didnt help. Also tried given the NETWORK process full access to the directories as well but that didnt help.  (I know thats supposed to not be it under XP Pro but I figured why not)

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I was actually rather proud of myself up until now cuz usually this many problmes would cause me to give up and try something else but I kept getting the feel that this really is the right solution for my project I just gotta keep at it.

Anyway I held off asking for help as long as possible but I'm stumped.

Thanks for any help anyone can give.

--schwanke

Didnt help. :(

Tried both Inetpub and Inetpub\wwwroot

I also tried deleting the virtual directories each time and recreating them with write permission as well as restarting IIS.

Not worried about the write permission at the moment being a hole because I am behind a hardware firewall with no ports forwarded to this machine.

This feels like such a 'simple' problem.  Like I've missed one configuration button somewhere but I have no clue where to look since this is my first time at IIS, SQL Server, ASP.NET and VWD, let alone all of them at once.  I was celebrating when I got the portal to load for the first time without an error page lol.

If I have you guys stumped then I have no clue how I could fix this alone. :|

Thanks for your help anyway though.  Guess I'll keep digging or maybe get lucky and someone will think of something else I can try.

Schwanke wrote   One thing I had to do that I forgot to mention was a hack for the redirect loop when using asp.net 3.5.  I had to replace all the references to a certain version string in the web.config to 3.5.0.0. Could this be it? Could there be a problem with the site being written in 2.0 but using 3.5 and the only change is a version number in a config file?

I have never heard of this. Yes this could be it. I can't imagine why you would have to do that.