I finally decided to have my own blog and chose Blogengine.net as my blog platform. It would be apt for my first blog to be about Blogengine.net. In this blog I will briefly outline the steps I took to install it on Godaddy hosting.
Environment:
Blog platform: BlogEngine.NET 1.5 Final (Download the BlogEngine.NET 1.5 (web) version)
DataProvider: MS SQL 2005
Hosting: GoDaddy Deluxe Account
FTP Client: FileZilla – Its Free!
Code Highlighter:
SyntaxHighlighter 2.0
BE.NET Extension
Windows Live Writer Extension
Installation:
BlogEngine.NET
1. Download and unzip the contents of BlogEngine.Web.zip.
2. Edit the robots.txt, remove the ‘#’ from the last line and replace the text ‘http://example.com/sitemap.axd ’ with your website, add ‘www.’ if you would like. In my case it is ‘http://www.dotnetjunkie.com/sitemap.axd’.
3. Go to your GoDaddy Hosting account and go to Content –> IIS Management. Maks...
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