Posted by: Hodgson - Friday, 18 December 2009 12:48:31 |
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I'm having trouble getting the install wizard to start.
I have very little experience setting up something like YAF, so I'll describe the setup as carefully as I can.
I'm installing YAF on a workstation as a test, preparatory to installing it on a server to use on an intranet.
The test computer has .NET 3.5, IIS snap-in + other Windows IIS components installed and SQL Server 2008 express.
The YAF version is YAF-v1.9.3-FINAL-BIN-NET35.zip.
So I'm following the instructions in install.txt that came with the zip. At first, I unzipped everything to the desktop but afterward renamed the extracted directory "yetanotherforum.net" and moved it to C:\Inetpub\wwwroot on the test computer.
I also copied the yetanotherforum.net/bin directory to wwwroot as well. So there are 2 bin directories--I wasn't sure where it should go.
I copied/renamed recommended-web.config to web.config.
I created an empty database in SQL Server 2008, called "yafnet."
I did not modify the db.config file, since I didn't see what needed to be changed in the connection string. Right now, it has this:
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