Hi -

I've got a clean install of DNN 4.8.4 on my Win2k3 server machine (SQL 2005) but when I got to run the install script - I get the dreaded page not found error.  Followed the instructions here:  www.mitchelsellers.com/blogs/articletype/articleview/articleid/176/installing-dotnetnuke-480-locally.aspx and the only change is I wanted the install on the root of my webserver.

I can browse and hit images within the DNN site, but Install.aspx won't run.  I think permissions are ok, and my web.config files are ok as well.  Any ideas?

Thanks.

excellent! That fixed it.

Installion ran fine, but now the default.aspx page is thowing an access denied message. Need to look at the permisions....

So - I can view logo.gif, if I go to http://localhost/logo.gif, but whenever I hit localhost/default.aspx, I get the 403 -Forbidden error. Specifically it say's:

You might not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials you supplied.

I have anonymous access setup under IIS
Permissions are set as: 
  Administrators - Full
 Network service - full
 System - Full
 IUser_account - read and execute
 Users - read and execute
 
If I disable the Iuser account, I am unable to view the logo.gif file, and I get a 401.2 error - HTTP Error 401.2 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to server configuration. Internet Information Services (IIS)

When I renable it, I can view the gif image, but the default.aspx page errors out witht the aformentioned 403 error.

This is running on a Win2k3/SQL2005 box. DNN is installed in the root of wwwroot.

One last thing:

Looking at the web log files I see the following entries:

2008-08-04 01:56:30 W3SVC1 127.0.0.1 GET /logo.gif - 80 - 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) 200 0 0
2008-08-04 01:56:34 W3SVC1 127.0.0.1 GET /Default.aspx - 80 - 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) 302 0 0
2008-08-04 01:56:34 W3SVC1 127.0.0.1 GET /install - 80 - 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) 301 0 0
2008-08-04 01:56:34 W3SVC1 127.0.0.1 GET /install/ - 80 - 127.0.0.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) 403 14 5

The top one, is the gif file, which comes up OK, but whenever I hit the default.aspx page, it looks like the install directory being called as well...the installation ran fine - is there something more I need to do for installation?
 Also - the timestamp looks incorrect.

portalalias was set to localhost/install

setting it to just locahost fixed the problem.  Thanks!