The Adventures of VMWare, Windows 7, Web Platform Installer, SQL Server 2008 Express, IIS 7 and installing DNN, otherwise known as HELL

So I had this bright idea, I'd setup VMWare on my desktop here at home and start playing with Windows 7, then I thought I would get a DNN website up and running in Windows 7, and record the whole thing with Camtasia. 24 hours later I've given up and am ready to go into manual labor! :)

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9 Comments

  • Thanks for convincing me not to re-live your experiences (I think), Peter

  • A whole blog post and no solution? Well, you've managed to waste a bit of my time too :-)

  • You should spend time more productively, like adding templates to Engage-Publish :)

    Seriously, I have learned the hard way--never be an early adopter. Always have a valid business case for what you're doing. Of course, if only I could follow my own advice!

  • I would say the issues are going to be 2 fold on the platform installer.

    1. Win 7 has a later installer platform 5.0 over 4.5.

    2. Win 7 has IIS 7.5

    I have found the platform installer in win 7 to not setup everything correctly and that may be because it was made for an earlier version of IIS. Still investigating myself.

    Douglas

  • Don't worry I won't say anything about a Mac here...

    Just my guess, but do you think this would've worked with a testing machine, instead of running through VMWare? Could the UNC problem be related to that?


  • John, we're working on it! :)

    Douglas, thanks for the heads up on that, I'll skip the installer for now.

    Schwartz, possibly better on another machine, though I am starting over to see what I can find.

  • I started a thread discussing this, and a possible resolution/impacts on DNN installations over on the DotNetNuke Forums

    http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/107/postid/284956/scope/posts/Default.aspx

    Are you happy now anonymous? I could reply directly to you, but I have no idea who you are....

  • I also started out trying to install DNN. I already had VWD Express 2008 and I've been trying now for 5 days. I've had multiple error messages, failed installs, cyclic reboot requirements, and tons of forum hunting. This sucks. I'm on Vista Home Premium 32-bit. I've uninstalled and reinstalled and repaired almost everything I can think of. This is ridiculous.

  • The permissions error you're getting is probably because you didn't "unblock" the DNN zip file. Try that and see if it works better (right-click the file and you'll see a security statement at the bottom with an unblock button).

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