I'm trying to set up a community site for some old friends from high school. Got the domain name, got the hosting space, just need to figure out what to run on the site.
I started by looking the old IBuySpy portal. It's been a while - it's now called the ASP.NET Portal Starter Kit. Looks as good as it did when it first came out. However, there's a slight security issue. My hoster doesn't allow unauthenticated write access to the file system. Most of the ASP.NET Portal data is stored in the database, however the actual site layout is stored in an on-disk XML file. I could work around this by setting up a portal on my local machine, building out the site, and then uploading the relevant xml file, but I want to have my good friend back east help manage the site, so that workaround does't work too well.
Next choice was DotNetNuke. They're about to release their 3.0 version (3.0.11 is supposed to be the final beta). Looks really nice and installed very easily on my local testbed. However, my hoster also doesn't give my DB account owner rights - I get reader, writer, DDL and security admin but not owner. DNN installs a series of stored procedures (which works on my machine due to having DDL permissions) but doesn't give EXEC permissions to those procs to anyone except DBO. Woops. I wrote a small utility app that extracts a list of all user stored procs and calls "GRANT EXEC ON <<SPNAME>> TO PUBLIC" on each one. Seems to work fine, but given the size of the DNN codebase, I'm not sure I'm comfortable that there isn't something else out there that's expecting DBO permissions.
Assuming I don't go with ASP.NET Portal or DNN, what other choices do I have? I've got pretty stringint security requirements, plus it has to use ASP.NET (go figure). I'm still looking at:
Any other suggestions?
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