John Colby
jwcolby at ColbyConsulting.com
Fri Oct 14 09:53:21 CDT 2005
Let's back up a minute and explain the problem. The first thing to understand is that, at heart, I am an database analyst / programmer, operating in the ACCESS realm, not a network admin, not a web site developer, not a SQL Server admin etc. Therefore... My development machine is my laptop There has always been ONE user (that I use anyway) jwcolby Jwcolby is an admin I understand that there is an user named Admin (that I do not use) that is also an admin. I know NOTHING about IIS other than that I installed it from Add/Delete programs / Windows I have IIS installed on my machine, and it will serve a page if I navigate to http://localhost/ though it wouldn't even do that with just the default install. I had to place a default.html in the wwwroot to even get it to do that. I know next to nothing about SQL Server. It is installed and running, but I know nothing about users and security I know nothing about Windows Security (it is not my job and I haven't used it). I do that Windows has user groups (and I can make one) and users (and I can make one) and that users can belong to groups (and I can assign them to groups). I do NOT know how to assign users "rights" to a given directory on the disk. It seems that you would just be able to right click on a directory and get at the rights / users / groups stuff but I am not seeing how to do that. So.... To sum up and quote Sergeant Schultz... "I know naaaaaathing" Now.... I have VS 2003 installed. I have written a fair amount of stuff (several months playing around on small projects) in VB.Net, including things like getting my SysVars working, able to read in from a form, saved into SysVar classes, and written out to an XML file, loaded back in from the XML file etc. I am not an expert by any means. I have a DotNetNuke web page at www.colbyconsulting.com which is way cool, I love it, and I want to start developing some simple modules for it. In order to develop modules for DotNetNuke, I have to have DotNetNuke running on my machine. It is open source, you can download it and install it on your machine. I have downloaded it, but the install is not happening, probably because of all the things I do NOT know (mentioned above). But above all, it appears to be an issue of IIS playing nicely with ASP.Net, or perhaps NOT playing nicely would be more correct. So, given what I DON'T know, advice like: >I have always setup the website location, all the site properties and the 'ForwardLookupZone', in IIS, before the ASP.Net project was started. The process may be automated now but when the site is setup manually there has never had any problems. Just isn't very useful. I appreciate the effort but that statement might as well be classical Greek (which I also don't know anything about BTW). I THINK I need to get my ASPNET user some privileges to do things on my computer, OTOH I have already made it an administrator which doesn't help. Why it wasn't set up with the needed privileges is a mystery to me, it seems like if it should have the privileges, then it would be installed with them but that is a discussion for another day. Today I need to accept the sad fact that everyone involved in using this stuff expects everyone else involved in using this stuff to know stuff that I don't know. "I just want to turn on the faucet and have water come out". So if anyone can help me get ASP.NET playing with IIS, I appreciate your assistance, but it needs to be "step-by-step". Assume that "I know Naaaawthing". Thanks, John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-vb-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Friday, October 14, 2005 1:28 AM To: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-VB] VS 2003 and IIS Hi John: I have always setup the website location, all the site properties and the 'ForwardLookupZone', in IIS, before the ASP.Net project was started. The process may be automated now but when the site is setup manually there has never had any problems. Jim