Written by Phillip Blanton
There seems to be a lot of trouble encountered by people attempting their first install of DotnetNuke 4.x. I have developed a step by step guide for installing a new Dnn4 development system on your Windows XP machine, and I find that I am constantly looking for the last place I posted it so that I can copy and paste it into a new thread.
I figured that Falafel would be a good place to stick it. That way I can just post a link to this one static location whenever I need to share this information.
If you follow these steps to the letter, you *WILL* have a DotNetNuke installation running on Windows XP Professional. If you want to then open and compile the solution in Visual Studio, that is the subject of another post, but let's first get you installed...