Hi -

I'm sure its something simple, but i have now been hours trying to get DNN installed. Its my first ever go, and have so far managed to get over the hurdles of permissions and things with help of the forum. But I don't seem to be able to get the database connection string working.

I have a clean install of DNN 4.5.5. and SQLEXPRESS and have the following connectionstring in my web.config file.

 connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"

and under appsetting: <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;"/>

Whenever I enter the url of my local install localhost/dotnetnuke (dotnetnuk is virtual dir on iss) it either directs me to dotnetnuke/install/underconstruction.htm or it gives me the error :

DotNetNuke Error: - Version 04.05.05

An attempt to attach an auto-named database for file C:\Documents and Settings\antoine.stinissen\My Documents\DF\App_Data\Database.mdf failed. A database with the same name exists, or specified file cannot be opened, or it is located on UNC share.

What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks for any help.

rgds,

Antoine

Thanks. Done all the things as written in the blog. However now get the following error:

The type initializer for 'DotNetNuke.Data.DataProvider' threw an exception

Installing DNN is surely not for the faint hearted. I have searched the forum on the above error but am non the wiser really.

Any suggestion on what the cause might be?

Thanks,

Antoine

So true...

I too was stuck with this and uncommenting the comments really put me in a huff.... when i foud out that i had not done it :-0

Thanks a ton.