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Dotnetnuke 4.9.4 on a port in IIS

So I was trying to install DNn 4.9.4 on our test server on the port 8032. Idea was that I would install it and another guy from our team would work on the skins. Well, installation is supposed to be simple, but I din't know what was in store for me untill I tried!

Ok I started by creating a database and I copied the files from install zip file. Then I created the new website in ISS on port 8032. I changed connection string values in the web.config and the site installed properly. Now I was happy, this was my first DNN installation, wow that felt nice :)

Now I clicked on the "Click here to access your portal" link and duh, nothing. It initially gave me Page not available error, then I refreshed the page a couple of times and it gave me 403 error.
It was almost 9 in the night and I was feeling hungry here. Ok I checked most of the articles that was available out here and did all what the experts suggested, but to no avail.

I found that in the PortalAlias table, it inserted "localhost/install", well that was strange. I removed and made it "localhost:8032", I was so confident it would solve the problem. But unfortunately it didn't.

Hunger took control over my thoughts to solve this issue and I called it a night. But then I thought of a similar issue a colleague had some time back. It was related to some setting called "UsePortNumber". It was commented in the config file. I uncommented and refreshed the page, it works like a charm.

Gosh, how easy it was. Just a small change. Just wanted to share my experience here!

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