There are tons of Forum and Community posts about all these Permission issues when installing the latest version of DotNetNuke, a ASP.Net based, Open Source CMS (Content Management System).
If you are running into this…this is what got me past the install, and past all the permissions issues.
- Download and Install the latest version (I installed the Source version so I can modify things and/or build themes (Portals/Skins).
- I would also recommend using this Installation Helper Application if you are not too technical, or you just want to make things a lot easier!
- After everything is installed, you will run the website either in the browser or from your Visual Studio, either way you will have to run the InstallWizard…and step 2 is where the Permission issues will start.
- Go to the web root folder you designated when you installed it, Right Click, Properties –> Security tab –> Edit –> Add (these ‘users’ to the list)
- IUSR
- NETWORK SERVICE
- IIS_IUSRS (yourmachinename\IIS_IUSRS)
- DefaultAppPool (you’ll have to find it by typing in “IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool”)
- Make sure you grant Full Control to the Application in the Web.config and if you want to even to the AppPool Identity
- If you still get the “your site failed permissions check” error after all this, you will need to go to IIS Management Tool –> Your Website –> .Net Trust Levels and change the Trust Level to Full.
I hope this clears some things up. I spent two days trying to get a local installation and everything I tried was failing…until the last step above.
Please let me know if this works for you, or if you did something else to get past some of the Permission errors.