Hi,

I'm installing dnn on:
Windows server 2003
SqlServer 2005
IIS 6

Before the database string setting are specified I get a proper error about not being able to access the database however after supplying the database string a strange error occurs when accessing the Install.aspx

Error:
Access to the path 'C:\DotNetNuke_2\Website\web.config' is denied

I don't think this is a proper error message as it clearly picked up the new database string. 

Here is the web.config db string config:
<connectionStrings>
    <add
      name="SiteSqlServer"
      connectionString="Server=(local);Database=DotNetNuke;uid=websurfer;pwd=password;"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  
  </connectionStrings>

Does anyone know what the problem here is?

Thanks

Hi Cathal,

Thanks for your help!

I had already given full perms to the aspnet user to both web directory and the directory above, and had also made sure that it was being recursed down.  So I didn't think it was a permissions issue.

However after your prompting I decided to try giving Everyone access to read/write/change on the web.config file. That resolved my issue.

~cang