DNN 8 Series - Installing DotNetNuke Version 8
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it as the standard walkthrough for setting up a local DNN 8 development environment, both when answering DNN questions and when asking for help after following it.
Recommended by 1 people across 1 different months, 2016 to 2016.
What it is
A short screencast by Chris Hammond showing how to install DNN Platform (DotNetNuke) version 8 on a local Windows machine. It covers unblocking and extracting the install zip, creating the site folder and IIS binding, setting file permissions, setting up SQL Server and a database user, and running the install wizard.
What people said
Recommends Chris Hammond · 2016-03 · Stack Overflow · on “DNN Content slider module not working”
This is a bug related to DNN8 deprecating support for older controls. If the module is open source you should download the source code and add references to DNN8 so that you can recompile it to get the proper references. Steps: Setup your development environment ( link [this video] ) Download Source Code (_source) version of the module Install _Source package via the Host/Extensions page ( link [LINK] ) Open the CSProj file in Visual Studio 2015 Remove reference to DotNetNuke.Web Add reference to DotNetNuke.Web.Deprecated (found in the website's BIN folder) Compile in Release mode to package (assuming the module supports my BUILDSCRIPTS) Install the created _INSTALL file to your production DNN si
Cites Ivan · 2016-01 · Stack Overflow · on “can't install dotnetnuke on windows 8”
After following the tutorial steps from this video: [this video] and clicking on the final button to visit newly created website, I get the following error: [LINK] I have tried it several times, and also tried following steps from some other tutorials, but the error would persist. However when I tried to install it on different computer, it worked just fine. I found possible solution here: Dotnetnuke Site settings PageLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object [LINK] but I just don't know how to access that stored procedure that he metioned as I am new to dnn. Can anybody help me with this please?
Cites Chris Hammond · 2016-02 · Stack Overflow · on “Need to customize DNN 8 Modules and Skins”
Yes, this is possible, you will want to do a couple of things Setup your Environment Open the Project for whatever you are modifying, this typically involves install the SOURCE package of the extension you want to modify. Don't change "core", meaning don't change "DNN" itself, you can, it's open source, but once you do you are forked and upgrading to new releases of DNN is very difficult to do if you aren't careful. Setting up your environment From [LINK] Setting up your development environment can vary based on what your end goal is. If you are doing module development for your own use, and within your own DNN environments, you can ignore a few of the settings below. If you are doing module
Cites Nauman · 2016-03 · Stack Overflow · on “DNN 8 Installation”
I have been trying to setup a dev. environment of DNN8 on my system. On installation wizard page, its keep giving DB connection error mentioned below. Database Information: Unable to connect to database. Database Connection Error ERROR: Index #: 0 Source: .Net SqlClient Data Provider Class: 20 Number: 2 Message: I guess it has nothing to do with folder permission but its DB problem. I have SQL SERVER 2012 express edition installed. My system in on domain. Maybe it has something to do with that, I don't know. I followed every step in the following video by Chris Hammond on youtube. [this video] except changing the name "dnndev.me" with something else. Please help. Thank you in advance.