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4/3/2006 1:40 PM
 
Tim Rolands


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I have installed various versions of DNN dozens of times, and I had never seen this behavior until now....

Installing either DNN 4.0.4 or DNN 3.2.2 on a Windows 2003 server, I get a "Root element is missing." error. This is because the web.config file has been wiped out! The file is there, but all of its content is gone. I replace the file with a fresh copy of release.config straight from the install download, modify the connection string, browse to the site -- and it does it again.

Does anyone know why this is happening? Any ideas where to start?

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4/3/2006 1:55 PM
 
cathal connolly


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check your permissions, perhaps you've granted the ability to delete the file, but not modify it.

Cathal

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4/6/2006 10:30 AM
 
Tim Rolands


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Finally got this working a few days ago. Turns out the only problem seems to have been a specific character in the password for my database connection string. I had an ampersand (&) in there, which I have done a number of times in the past. As soon as I removed the ampersand from the password so it was just purely alphanumeric, everything worked fine.
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