Thanks in advance to any experts who can reply.

I have successfully used Cassini Web Server 2.0 with DotNetNuke on other machines, but I am frustrated by today's installation.   This is on my main box which is truly in great shape.  (Injured pride!)

Here's the deal: I am on XP Home, so I set up the combo of SQL Server 2005 Express + SQL Server Management Studio + the latest Cassini Web Server 2.0 build.

All goes as expected, beautiful DNN 4.3.6 installation, etc.

But when I click on the "Click Here To Access Your Portal" ... a problem occurs.  It is repeatable and I have restored my machine and attempted to install this combo three times with repeatable error.

The error is below ... it seems to do with the URL that Cassini is attempting to use when serving up the DNN application.

When I press "Click Here To Access Your Portal" ...
    * in Firefox, the URL appears as htt p:/ /localhost : xxxx/ (where xxxx is the port assigned by the system's install of DNN)
    Shortly thereafter, I get the following error from Firefox:
            "The page isn't redirecting properly --
              Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
              address in a way that will never complete.  This problem can sometimes
              be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies."

   * in IE 6.0, it does indeed do exactly that ... the process just loops trying to load the page, and I eventually have to kill IE 6.0


One Clue (?)  the URL ... isn't it supposed to be a longer URL with a specific numerical domain after the xxxx/   ???

Again, thanks in advance for all help!!

Oddly enough, I have the exact same issue and have already posted in the dotnetnuke forums. The only difference is that I was upgrading from 4.3.5 to 4.3.6. If I get an answer over there, I'll post it here.

According to vois22 (we exchanged emails), DNN 4.3.6 has a bug - it fails to redirect to URLs with ports other than 80. It looks like DNN 4.3.6 cannot be used with any of the Cassini server family, unless DNN under Cassini runs on port 80.

add below element to <appSettings> of web.config file
<add key="UsePortNumber" value="True"/>

 

Hello! I don´t know if this is the solution to your problem, but, in windows vista home basic edition, i had the same problem,  i needed cassini because iis admin is not included in this windows version.

DNN in cassini only works by setting port 80 to publish website, so stopping iis service (in vista home basic i can´t manage it, but the service exists and is running all the time!)  it works fine. I tried setting config.ini port value, and it doesn´t works. I hope this tip helps you.-

 

Regards

Fernando G. Martínez