I am a bit of a newbee to any kind of programming. I have read Beginning ASP.NET using VB.NET by Wrox Press. As a follow on I purchased Building an ASP.NET Intranet which utilises the IBuy Spy portal.
I have IIS, SQL Server (evaluation) and .NET Framework 1.1 installed on a virgin Windows 2000 PC as a test machine, with one user, the Administrator configured.
I installed the portal which didn't work first time as there was an access issue with the web.config file. I worked out that the problem seemed to be related to the fact that the file was read only. Once I changed the attributes of this file the portal seemed to install correctly. It created the portal virtual directory, added an ASPNET user to the machine and added the ASPNET user to the Portal database in SQL Server.
However, when I try to open the portal in the browser by typing "http://localhost/portalvb" in the address bar I get a "403 - Forbidden, You are not authorised to view this page", page.
I am logged onto the PC as Administrator, SQL Server is using Windows Authentication and as a test I added the Administrators group to the list of users in the Portal DB. This made no difference.
All the files in the portal folder and sub-folders were read only so I removed the read-only attribute, with no success.
I'm sure this is a very simple problem and I have overlooked something but I can't seem to fathom it out.
Any ideas anyone.
Thanks for any input.