Just some information for those people who were looking to run DNN on a shared server such as the one that I'm currently using interserver.net.

This is not an advertisement for that company!

Firstly, quite often if you try to install DNN from within the available applications that are offered by the Plesk control panel you will often only be offered an old version of DNN.

If you try to do a manual installation by uploading the latest version of DNN and creating a database and database user within the Plesk control panel it will not give your database user owner permissions. This permission of owner is required for a manual installation of DNN.

In my case I contacted customer support and had them apply owner permission to the database user on their end. With this particular hosting provider I was not able to manipulate the database permission by remote access.

Once this was done and I had created a directory for the DNN website I wanted e.g. "mysite.com" I was able to copy all the files from the install package into that directory and then navigate with my browser to the website name, e.g.  http://mysite.com

This allowed me to do a normal manual installation of DNN using my created database name and created database user.

Another problem that I found was that my site was not showing the site logo. This was happening even with the default skin supplied with the DNN package. After some frustrating investigation I found that a setting in the Plesk control panel under Web Application Firewall had the firewall set to "ON" my default. Once I changed that setting to "Detection only" my site logo was able to display properly.

I hope this information is helpful to somebody.

Kind Regards
Trevor