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11/1/2006 9:34 AM
 

Hello i'm trying to install dotnet nuke on my windows 2003 server with asp 2.0 and SQL 2000

get the following error

Server Error in '/' Application.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Source Error:

Line 378:                Server.ScriptTimeout = Integer.MaxValue
Line 379:
Line 380:                Select Case GetUpgradeStatus()
Line 381:                    Case Globals.UpgradeStatus.Install
Line 382:                        InstallApplication()

Source File: G:\Internet Information Services\www.gezinskoor-spirit.nl\Install\Install.aspx.vb    Line: 380

Stack Trace:

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   DotNetNuke.Common.Utilities.Config.GetConnectionString(String name) +47
   DotNetNuke.Common.Utilities.Config.GetConnectionString() +78
   DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider..ctor() +83


Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.42

 

my web.config looks like this

<configuration>
  <!-- register local configuration handlers -->
  <configSections>
    <sectionGroup name="dotnetnuke">
      <!-- the requirePermission attribute will cause a syntax warning - please ignore - it is required for Medium Trust support-->
      <section name="data" requirePermission="false" type="DotNetNuke.Framework.Providers.ProviderConfigurationHandler, DotNetNuke" />
      <section name="logging" requirePermission="false" type="DotNetNuke.Framework.Providers.ProviderConfigurationHandler, DotNetNuke" />
      <section name="scheduling" requirePermission="false" type="DotNetNuke.Framework.Providers.ProviderConfigurationHandler, DotNetNuke" />
      <section name="htmlEditor" requirePermission="false" type="DotNetNuke.Framework.Providers.ProviderConfigurationHandler, DotNetNuke" />
      <section name="navigationControl" requirePermission="false" type="DotNetNuke.Framework.Providers.ProviderConfigurationHandler, DotNetNuke" />
      <section name="searchIndex" requirePermission="false" type="DotNetNuke.Framework.Providers.ProviderConfigurationHandler, DotNetNuke" />
      <section name="searchDataStore" requirePermission="false" type="DotNetNuke.Framework.Providers.ProviderConfigurationHandler, DotNetNuke" />
      <section name="friendlyUrl" requirePermission="false" type="DotNetNuke.Framework.Providers.ProviderConfigurationHandler, DotNetNuke" />
      <section name="caching" requirePermission="false" type="DotNetNuke.Framework.Providers.ProviderConfigurationHandler, DotNetNuke" />
      <section name="authentication" requirePermission="false" type="DotNetNuke.Framework.Providers.ProviderConfigurationHandler, DotNetNuke" />
    </sectionGroup>
  </configSections>
  <connectionStrings>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005    -->
    <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Server=main-10;Database=bram-bok;uid=****;pwd=****;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  </connectionStrings>
  <appSettings>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005 - kept for backwards compatability - legacy modules  -->
    <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Server=main-10;Database=bram-bok;uid=****a;pwd=****;" />
    <add key="InstallTemplate" value="DotNetNuke.install.config" />
    <!--  Alternative Install Templates (included in package)
    <add key="InstallTemplate" value="Club.install.config" />
    <add key="InstallTemplate" value="Personal.install.config" />
    <add key="InstallTemplate" value="SmallBusiness.install.config" />
    -->
    <add key="AutoUpgrade" value="true" />
    <add key="InstallMemberRole" value="true" />
    <add key="ShowMissingKeys" value="false" />
    <add key="EnableWebFarmSupport" value="false" />
    <add key="EnableCachePersistence" value="false" />
    <add key="InstallationDate" value="3/5/2006" />
  </appSettings>
  <system.codedom>
    <compilers>
      <compiler language="vb" type="Microsoft.VisualBasic.VBCodeProvider, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089" extension=".VB" />
    </compilers>
  </system.codedom>
  <system.web>
    <machineKey validationKey="99A75315A01E9F3C27BD0ABFF58B9C6F9E0103BC" decryptionKey="E3EB04A8B4EB61C544EA61759A435066FBA6427CE7AF0811" decryption="3DES" validation="SHA1" />
    <!-- HttpModules for Common Functionality -->
    <httpModules>
      <!-- add name="Authentication" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.AuthenticationModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Authentication" / -->
      <add name="UrlRewrite" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewriteModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewrite" />
      <add name="Exception" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.ExceptionModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Exception" />
      <add name="UsersOnline" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UsersOnlineModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UsersOnline" />
      <add name="DNNMembership" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.DNNMembershipModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.DNNMembership" />
      <add name="Personalization" type="DotNetNuke.HttpModules.PersonalizationModule, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.Personalization" />
    </httpModules>
    <!-- This is for FTB 3.0 support -->
    <httpHandlers>
      <add verb="GET" path="FtbWebResource.axd" type="FreeTextBoxControls.AssemblyResourceHandler, FreeTextBox" />
    </httpHandlers>
    <!-- set code access security trust level - this is generally set in the machine.config
    <trust level="Medium" originUrl="http://localhost/.*" />
     -->
    <!-- set debugmode to false for running application -->
    <compilation debug="false" strict="false">
      <buildProviders>
        <remove extension=".resx" />
        <remove extension=".resources" />
      </buildProviders>
      <assemblies>
        <add assembly="Microsoft.VisualBasic, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A" />
        <add assembly="System.DirectoryServices, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A" />
        <add assembly="System.Design, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A" />
        <add assembly="System.Management, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A" />
      </assemblies>
      <!-- register your app_code subfolders to generate granular assemblies during compilation
      <codeSubDirectories>
         <add directoryName="sub-directory name"/>
      </codeSubDirectories>
      -->
    </compilation>
    <!-- permits errors to be displayed for remote clients -->
    <customErrors mode="Off" />
    <!-- Forms or Windows authentication -->
    <authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms name=".DOTNETNUKE" protection="All" timeout="60" />
    </authentication>
    <!--
      <identity impersonate="true"/>
      <authentication mode="Windows">
      </authentication>
  -->
    <!-- allow large file uploads -->
    <httpRuntime useFullyQualifiedRedirectUrl="true" maxRequestLength="8192" requestLengthDiskThreshold="8192" />
    <httpCookies httpOnlyCookies="true" requireSSL="false" domain="" />
    <!--  GLOBALIZATION
  This section sets the globalization settings of the application.
  Utf-8 is not supported on Netscape 4.x
  If you need netscape compatiblity leave iso-8859-1.
  UTF-8 is recommended for complex languages
  -->
    <globalization culture="en-US" uiCulture="en" requestEncoding="UTF-8" responseEncoding="UTF-8" fileEncoding="UTF-8" />
    <!--<globalization culture="en-US" uiCulture="en"  fileEncoding="iso-8859-1" requestEncoding="iso-8859-1" responseEncoding="iso-8859-1"/>-->
    <!-- page level options -->
    <pages validateRequest="false" enableViewStateMac="true" enableEventValidation="false">
      <namespaces>
        <add namespace="System.ComponentModel" />
        <add namespace="System.Data" />
        <add namespace="System.Data.SqlClient" />
        <add namespace="System.Drawing" />
        <add namespace="Microsoft.VisualBasic" />
        <add namespace="System.Globalization" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Services.Localization" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Entities.Users" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Common" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Data" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Framework" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Modules" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Security" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Services" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.UI" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Common.Utilities" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions" />
        <add namespace="DotNetNuke.Entities.Tabs" />
      </namespaces>
    </pages>
    <xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy" />
    <!-- ASP.NET 2 Membership/Profile/Role and AnonymousAuthentication Providers -->
    <!-- anonymousIdentification configuration:
          enabled="[true|false]"                              Feature is enabled?
          cookieName=".ASPXANONYMOUS"                         Cookie Name
          cookieTimeout="100000"                              Cookie Timeout in minutes
          cookiePath="/"                                      Cookie Path
          cookieRequireSSL="[true|false]"                     Set Secure bit in Cookie
          cookieSlidingExpiration="[true|false]"              Reissue expiring cookies?
          cookieProtection="[None|Validation|Encryption|All]" How to protect cookies from being read/tampered
          domain="[domain]"                                   Enables output of the "domain" cookie attribute set to the specified value
        -->
    <anonymousIdentification enabled="true" cookieName=".ASPXANONYMOUS" cookieTimeout="100000" cookiePath="/" cookieRequireSSL="false" cookieSlidingExpiration="true" cookieProtection="None" domain="" />
    <membership defaultProvider="DNNSQLMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <!-- Configuration for DNNSQLMembershipProvider:
              connectionStringName="string"               Name corresponding to the entry in <connectionStrings> section where the connection string for the provider is specified
              passwordAttemptThreshold="int"              The number of failed password attempts, or failed password answer attempts that are allowed before locking out a user?s account
              passwordAttemptWindow="int"                 The time window, in minutes, during which failed password attempts and failed password answer attempts are tracked
              enablePasswordRetrieval="[true|false]"      Should the provider support password retrievals
              enablePasswordReset="[true|false]"          Should the provider support password resets
              requiresQuestionAndAnswer="[true|false]"    Should the provider require Q & A
           minRequiredPasswordLength="int"            The minimum password length
           minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="int"  The minimum number of non-alphanumeric characters
              applicationName="string"                    Optional string to identity the application: defaults to Application Metabase path
              requiresUniqueEmail="[true|false]"          Should the provider require a unique email to be specified
              passwordFormat="[Clear|Hashed|Encrypted]"   Storage format for the password: Hashed (SHA1), Clear or Encrypted (Triple-DES)
              description="string"                        Description of what the provider does
        -->
        <add name="DNNSQLMembershipProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Security.Membership.DNNSQLMembershipProvider, DotNetNuke.Provider.SQLMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="SiteSqlServer" enablePasswordRetrieval="true" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" minRequiredPasswordLength="4" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" requiresUniqueEmail="false" passwordFormat="Encrypted" applicationName="/" description="Stores and retrieves membership data from the local Microsoft SQL Server database" />
      </providers>
    </membership>
    <!-- Configuration for roleManager:
          enabled="[true|false]"                            Feature is enabled?
          cacheRolesInCookie="[true|false]"                 Cache roles in cookie?
          cookieName=".ASPXROLES"                           Cookie Name
          createPersistentCookie="[true|false]"             Creates a persistent cookie or session cookie?
          cookieTimeout="30"                                Cookie Timeout
          cookiePath="/"                                    Cookie Path
          cookieRequireSSL="[true|false]"                   Set Secure bit in Cookie
          cookieSlidingExpiration="[true|false]"            Reissue expiring cookies?
          cookieProtection="[None|Validation|Encryption|All]"    How to protect cookies from being read/tampered
          defaultProvider="string"                          Name of provider to use by default
          domain="[domain]"                                 Enables output of the "domain" cookie attribute set to the specified value
          maxCachedResults="int"                            Maximum number of roles to cache in cookie
        -->
    <roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="DNNSQLRoleProvider" cacheRolesInCookie="true" cookieName=".ASPXROLES" cookieTimeout="30" cookiePath="/" cookieRequireSSL="false" cookieSlidingExpiration="true" createPersistentCookie="false" cookieProtection="All">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <!-- Configuration for DNNSQLRoleProvider:
              connectionStringName="string"  Name corresponding to the entry in <connectionStrings> section where the connection string for the provider is specified
              description="string"           Description of what the provider does
              commandTimeout="int"           Command timeout value for SQL command
        -->
        <add name="DNNSQLRoleProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Security.Role.DNNSQLRoleProvider, DotNetNuke.Provider.SQLRoleProvider" connectionStringName="SiteSqlServer" applicationName="/" description="Stores and retrieves roles data from the local Microsoft SQL Server database" />
      </providers>
    </roleManager>
    <!--  Configuration for profile:
            enabled="[true|false]"              Feature is enabled?
            automaticSaveEnabled="[true|false]" Enable automatic save of profile
            inherits="type-name"                Class from which the profile type inherits from. This type must inherit from ProfileBase type.
        -->
    <profile enabled="true" defaultProvider="DNNSQLProfileProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <!-- Configuration for DNNSQLProfileProvider:
              connectionStringName="string"  Name corresponding to the entry in <connectionStrings> section where the connection string for the provider is specified
              description="string"           Description of what the provider does
        -->
        <add name="DNNSQLProfileProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Users.Profile.DNNSQLProfileProvider, DotNetNuke.Provider.SQLProfileProvider" connectionStringName="SiteSqlServer" applicationName="/" description="Stores and retrieves profile data from the local Microsoft SQL Server database" />
      </providers>
      <!-- Properites for DNNSQLProfileProvider:
            <properties>                Optional element. List of properties in the Profile system
              <add                      Add a property
                name="string"                                       Name of the property
                type="string"                                       Optional. Type of the property. Default: string.
                readOnly="[true|false]"                             Optional. Is Value read-only. Default: false.
                defaultValue="string"                               Optional. Default Value. Default: Empty string.
                allowAnonymous="[true|false]"                       Optional. Allow storing values for anonymous users. Default: false.
                serializeAs=["String|Xml|Binary|ProviderSpecific"]  Optional. How to serialize the type. Default: ProviderSpecific.
                  />
            </properties>
        -->
      <properties>
        <add name="FirstName" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="LastName" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="Unit" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="Street" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="City" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="Region" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="PostalCode" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="Country" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="Telephone" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="Fax" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="Cell" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="Website" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="IM" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="TimeZone" type="integer" allowAnonymous="true" />
        <add name="PreferredLocale" type="string" allowAnonymous="true" />
      </properties>
    </profile>
  </system.web>
  <dotnetnuke>
    <htmlEditor defaultProvider="Ftb3HtmlEditorProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <!--
         FTB options:
         ============
         toolbarStyle="Office2003|OfficeXP|Office2000|OfficeMac"  Sets the default FTB Toolbar style
         enableProFeatures="[true|false]"                         Pro features require a license from FreeTextBox
                                                                  or you may test them with localhost only
         spellCheck="[{none}|IeSpellCheck|NetSpell]"              IeSpellCheck is free for non-commercial use only
                                                                  NetSpell requires some integration work
    -->
        <add name="Ftb3HtmlEditorProvider" type="DotNetNuke.HtmlEditor.Ftb3HtmlEditorProvider, DotNetNuke.Ftb3HtmlEditorProvider" providerPath="~\Providers\HtmlEditorProviders\Ftb3HtmlEditorProvider\" toolbarStyle="Office2003" enableProFeatures="false" spellCheck="" />
      </providers>
    </htmlEditor>
    <navigationControl defaultProvider="SolpartMenuNavigationProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="SolpartMenuNavigationProvider" type="DotNetNuke.NavigationControl.SolpartMenuNavigationProvider, DotNetNuke.SolpartMenuNavigationProvider" providerPath="~\Providers\NavigationProviders\SolpartMenuNavigationProvider\" />
        <add name="DNNMenuNavigationProvider" type="DotNetNuke.NavigationControl.DNNMenuNavigationProvider, DotNetNuke.DNNMenuNavigationProvider" providerPath="~\Providers\NavigationProviders\DNNMenuNavigationProvider\" />
        <add name="DNNTreeNavigationProvider" type="DotNetNuke.NavigationControl.DNNTreeNavigationProvider, DotNetNuke.DNNTreeNavigationProvider" providerPath="~\Providers\NavigationProviders\DNNTreeNavigationProvider\" />
        <add name="DNNDropDownNavigationProvider" type="DotNetNuke.NavigationControl.DNNDropDownNavigationProvider, DotNetNuke.DNNDropDownNavigationProvider" providerPath="~\Providers\NavigationProviders\DNNDropDownNavigationProvider\" />
      </providers>
    </navigationControl>
    <searchIndex defaultProvider="ModuleIndexProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="ModuleIndexProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Search.ModuleIndexer, DotNetNuke.Search.Index" providerPath="~\Providers\SearchProviders\ModuleIndexer\" />
      </providers>
    </searchIndex>
    <searchDataStore defaultProvider="SearchDataStoreProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="SearchDataStoreProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Search.SearchDataStore, DotNetNuke.Search.DataStore" providerPath="~\Providers\SearchProviders\SearchDataStore\" />
      </providers>
    </searchDataStore>
    <data defaultProvider="SqlDataProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="SqlDataProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider" connectionStringName="SiteSqlServer" upgradeConnectionString="" providerPath="~\Providers\DataProviders\SqlDataProvider\" objectQualifier="" templateFile="DotNetNuke_template.mdf" databaseOwner="dbo" />
      </providers>
    </data>
    <logging defaultProvider="DBLoggingProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="XMLLoggingProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Log.EventLog.XMLLoggingProvider, DotNetNuke.XMLLoggingProvider" configfilename="LogConfig.xml.resources" providerPath="~\Providers\LoggingProviders\XMLLoggingProvider\" />
        <add name="DBLoggingProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Log.EventLog.DBLoggingProvider.DBLoggingProvider, DotNetNuke.Provider.DBLoggingProvider" providerPath="~\Providers\LoggingProviders\Provider.DBLoggingProvider\" />
      </providers>
    </logging>
    <scheduling defaultProvider="DNNScheduler">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="DNNScheduler" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Scheduling.DNNScheduling.DNNScheduler, DotNetNuke.DNNScheduler" providerPath="~\Providers\SchedulingProviders\DNNScheduler\" debug="false" maxThreads="1" />
      </providers>
    </scheduling>
    <friendlyUrl defaultProvider="DNNFriendlyUrl">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="DNNFriendlyUrl" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Url.FriendlyUrl.DNNFriendlyUrlProvider, DotNetNuke.HttpModules.UrlRewrite" includePageName="true" regexMatch="[^a-zA-Z0-9 _-]" />
      </providers>
    </friendlyUrl>
    <caching defaultProvider="FileBasedCachingProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="FileBasedCachingProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Cache.FileBasedCachingProvider.FBCachingProvider, DotNetNuke.Caching.FileBasedCachingProvider" providerPath="~\Providers\CachingProviders\FileBasedCachingProvider\" />
        <add name="BroadcastPollingCachingProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Services.Cache.BroadcastPollingCachingProvider.BPCachingProvider, DotNetNuke.Caching.BroadcastPollingCachingProvider" providerPath="~\Providers\CachingProviders\BroadcastPollingCachingProvider\" />
      </providers>
    </caching>
    <authentication defaultProvider="ADSIAuthenticationProvider">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="ADSIAuthenticationProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Security.Authentication.ADSIProvider, DotNetNuke.Authentication.ADSIProvider" providerPath="~\Providers\AuthenticationProviders\ADSIProvider\" />
      </providers>
    </authentication>
  </dotnetnuke>
</configuration>

Can someone help ME PLEASE !!!

 
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11/17/2006 8:02 PM
 
I have your same specs and the same problem... arrrg
 
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12/1/2006 1:06 AM
 

Same issue, anyone know the problem?

 
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1/23/2007 1:36 AM
 
Did any of you figure out how to fix this?  Please share your solution.
 
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1/31/2007 2:43 PM
 
See this thread:

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/ForumsDotNetNuke/tabid/795/forumid/107/threadid/45961/scope/posts/Default.aspx
Make sure your connection string isn't commented out.
 
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