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8/13/2006 10:01 AM
 
Pim

Joined: 8/2/2006
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For the past three days, I have been trying to get DNN 4.3.4 to run on my Windows 2000 system at home. It works fine on the server at work, but I can not get it to install on my home system.

Is DNN supposed to be able to run on non-"Server" operating systems at all?

Other asp.net applications run fine when I call them up through localhost, so I know that the IIS, SQL Server and the .NET Framework 2.0 are installed correctly. But when I try to access DNN, I can't get it to proceed past the

ERROR: Could not connect to database specified in connectionString for SqlDataProvider

I think I tried most of the solutions that were suggested in these forums, but I can't help but notice that whenever it was solved, it always turned out to be on either a 2000/20003 Server, or an XP system. So my question remains, can non-"Server" systems be used at all?

I also downloaded the Starter Kit, for use under the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, and that works. It's just the standalone version that refuses to run.
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8/13/2006 7:12 PM
 
Chris Paterra


Joined: 4/5/2003
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THe problem here isn't DNN, IIS, or the operating system. THe problem is the connection string, it is off somehow.

 

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8/14/2006 10:50 PM
 
Stephen Deal

Joined: 6/25/2003
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If you are using the default SQLExpress setting I found that there are two missing backslashes in the web.config file so those setting should be like so:

<add name="ConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\Database.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

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<add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|\Database.mdf;"/>
 
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8/15/2006 3:57 AM
 
Pim

Joined: 8/2/2006
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OK. I tried several approaches, including keeping everything to the default (which didn't work), createing a new database in the SQL Server Manager and connecting to that and stopping and restarting various services, rebooting the computer after every change (I was quite desparate by then) but I finally got it to start the install cycle.

That made me very happy of course, but the problem is that I don't know now what of the things I did actually solved the problem. If I were to install it on another system, I still wouldn't know what to do!

Anyway, after the installation cycle, it still didn't work properly. It had created a number of new subdirectories, and it turned out I needed to set the full control flags to the ASPNET account for these these subdirectories, even though I already gave ASPNET full control to the ../Website directory before.

Is this normal? I never saw this mentioned in the install documentation.
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