I installed the Starter Kit for 4.3.1 locally, built it, modified the web.config and everything worked fine.  I'm trying to deploy it to my host (hostdone) and am having problems.

My first question is should I be using the Publish option in VS2005?  The first time I tried this, it said that all data will be lost.  It deleted my aspnet_client and ASPSecured folders!  So I had to have my host re-install the .net 2.0.  Publish requires Front Page extensions.  Is there any conflict with this and .net 2.0?

OK.  So then after reinstalling the .net 2.0 for the domain, I zipped the contents of my local web root, uploaded and unzipped it to the root of my domain and modified the web.config for dns (connections and app).  I ran the site and was told that I couldn't access the db.  The databaseowner in web.config is set to 'dbo' and my host does not allow that.  So I changed it to the username that I used to create the db throught the hosts gui.

I ran the site and setup ran.  Here's the output:

Installing DotNetNuke

Version: 04.03.01

Installation Status Report

00:00:00.031 - Installing Version: 3.1.0
00:00:00.031 - Installing Script: DotNetNuke.SetUp.SqlDataProvider
00:00:00.062 - Installing Script: DotNetNuke.Schema.SqlDataProvider
00:00:02.140 - Installing Script: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider
00:00:04.687 - Installing MemberRole Provider:
00:00:04.687 - Executing InstallCommon.sql
00:00:05.109 - Executing InstallMembership.sql
00:00:05.375 - Executing InstallProfile.sql
00:00:05.500 - Executing InstallRoles.sql
00:00:05.812 - Upgrading to Version: 3.1.1
00:00:06.671 - Upgrading to Version: 3.2.0
00:00:06.734 - Upgrading to Version: 3.2.1
00:00:06.781 - Upgrading to Version: 3.2.2
00:00:06.781 - Upgrading to Version: 3.2.3
00:00:07.578 - Upgrading to Version: 3.2.4
00:00:07.593 - Upgrading to Version: 3.2.5
00:00:07.625 - Upgrading to Version: 3.2.6
00:00:07.656 - Upgrading to Version: 3.2.7
00:00:07.656 - Upgrading to Version: 3.3.0
00:00:07.718 - Upgrading to Version: 3.3.1
00:00:07.750 - Upgrading to Version: 4.0.0
00:00:07.906 - Upgrading to Version: 4.0.1
00:00:08.031 - Upgrading to Version: 4.0.2
00:00:08.062 - Upgrading to Version: 4.0.3
00:00:08.093 - Upgrading to Version: 4.0.4
00:00:08.546 - Upgrading to Version: 4.0.5
00:00:08.562 - Upgrading to Version: 4.0.6
00:00:08.562 - Upgrading to Version: 4.0.7
00:00:08.562 - Upgrading to Version: 4.3.0
00:00:08.593 - Upgrading to Version: 4.3.1
00:00:08.609 - Performing General Upgrades
00:00:08.796 - Loading Host Settings:
00:00:08.843 - Configuring SuperUser:
00:00:09.078 - Installing Desktop Modules:
00:00:09.078 - Installing Modules:
00:00:09.109 - Executing Additional Scripts:
00:00:09.109 -   Creating Portal: My Website
00:00:11.593 -   Successfully Installed Portal 0:
00:00:11.593 - Installing Optional Resources:

Installation Complete

Click Here To Access Your Portal

The link above will bring you to the site.  I'm missing lots of modules and there's no site content (by default) that I have in my local site.

Could someone please help?

Thank you.  I really appreciate the help.  I couldn't get the .../install.aspx?mode=installresources to work for my starter kit version, so I did like you suggested and uploaded the install package.  Now, my question is if I make changes to my local, how do I synchronize my local version with the version I uploaded?  Publish?  What is the preferred method?

Once again, thank you very much.