Installing .NET Nuke

I read DotNetNuke supports OpenID out of the box and I wanted to try it out.  This post covers the installation of DNN.  A future post will cover configuring OpenID.

Environment:

• Windows 7 64 bit
• IIS 7.5
• SQL Server 2008 R2

Downloaded DotNetNuke Community Edition version 5.05.01

Listened to the DotNetNuke Installation Webinar while doing the following:

Right click properties on the zip file. Uncheck Unblock.

Unzipped the community edition.

read .\Documentation\Readme.txt

Open SQL Server Management Studio connect to .\

Created a new database on my local machine named DotNetNukeTest.  Set initial size to 20 MB.

Expand the security node.  Right click Logins 

Click 'New Login...'

Select SQL Server Authentication

login Name: DotNetNuke

password:IloveGravityWorks

Uncheck Enforce password policy

select User Mapping map to DotNetNukeTest and set role membership to db_owner

Moved the folder to c:\www\

Opened Internet Information Services Manager

Expanded the Sites node.

Right click Sites, Add Site
  Site Name: DotNetNukeTest
  Change Application Pool back to DefaultAppPool
  Physical path: C:\www\DotNetNuke_Community_05.05.01_Install

  Port: 8081

right click C:\www\DotNetNuke_Community_05.05.01_Install -> Properties
select Security tab
click Edit
Click Add
Ensure From this location: is set to your computer name
Object name --> IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool
OK
Grant the DefaultAppPool user modify permissions
OK
OK

Browse to http://localhost:8081 in Chrome

Select Custom install (I always like doing this for new software)

Next through File Permissions Summary.

Select 'SQL Server 2005/2008 Database' instead of SQL Server 2005/2008 (Express File).
Server: "."
Database: "DotNetNukeTest"

Uncheck 'Integrated Security"
User ID: "DotNetNuke"
Password:'IloveGravityWorks'

I fix my SQL Server authentication and then click Next

change the password, and email fields.  I leave SMTP alone.

on the Install Optional Modules I select all modules:
Announcements (04.00.03), Blog (04.00.00), Documents (04.01.00), Events (05.01.04), FAQs (04.04.00), Feedback (05.00.02), FormAndList (05.01.03), Forum (04.05.03), Help (03.00.02), HTML (Community (05.04.03), IFrame (04.04.00), Links (04.00.01), Map (01.00.09), Media (03.03.00), Messaging (01.01.00), NewsFeeds (04.00.01), Reports (05.01.00), Repository (03.01.15), Store (02.01.36), Survey (04.60.00), Taxonomy (01.01.00), Telerik (05.05.00), UsersOnline (05.01.00), Wiki (04.02.00), XML (04.03.05)
Next
Next through Skins and Containers
Next through Language Packs
Next through Authentication Systems:

Next through Providers

For Portal Administrator set password, email address, and Portal Title.

Click 'Start building your new Site!'

Blacklisted Oh No! - More reliable email

I've had email issues for about 1.5 years.  Often times when sending email to a new contact my email doesn't arrive in their inbox because it gets put in their spam filter or doesn't even reach their inbox at all.

At a party this summer I spoke with some network guys who suggested googling email black list and checking to see if my domain was black listed.

The first hit returned mxtoolbox, and a search for my domain did show I was listed once :(
http://www.mxtoolbox.com/SuperTool.aspx?action=blacklist:davidsilvasmith.com

Clicking on the entry I was taken to the listing website which had a button to whitelist myself.

198.173.106.90 was found in NOMOREFUNN!
no-more-funn.moensted.dk -> 127.0.0.7
31/03/02 importet from fiveten after SPAM

Checking back a day later, my domain was no longer listed, and now 2 months later, my emails seem to be getting through to recipients.

Troubleshooting a failed login with correct user name and password

After setting up a new Database in SQL Server 2008 R2 and configuring DotNetNuke (DNN), an ASP.NET application, to connect to the new database I got received this message:
Connection Error(s):
Index #: 0
Source: .Net SqlClient Data Provider
Class: 14
Number: 18456
Message: Sql login failed

I open up SQL Server Management Studio and reset the user password.  Try again from DNN, same error.

I try connecting via SQL Server Management Studio.  Login failed.

I look in event Viewer and see
Login failed for user 'dotnetnuke'. Reason: An attempt to login using SQL authentication failed. Server is configured for Windows authentication only. [CLIENT: <local machine>]

I open up up SQL Server Management Studio and connect to '.'

I right click the SQL Server 10.50.1600 node and

1. Select properties
2. Select Security Page
3. Under Server authentication change it to 'SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode'

Right click the SQL Server 10.50.1600 node again and select 'Restart' from the sub menu.

Back to the application and login is successful.