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11/14/2006 12:57 PM
 
Tim Hanschke

Joined: 7/17/2006
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Hello all --

I am feeling completely worthless trying to get 4.3.5 installed on a Windows 2003 Server.  I created a new Website at C:\Inetpub\dnn.  Then I unzipped the contents of the 4.3.5-Install.zip to that folder.  Opened up Visual Studio Express and did the Ctrl+F5 thing, it said it completed.  Then it opened a web browser and I was greeted with "Could not connect to database".  I didn't make any changes to any files.  Any ideas?  I have tried this on multiple machines with exactly the same result.

Thanks in advance,

Tim
 
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11/14/2006 9:34 PM
 
Tundra

Joined: 11/7/2006
Posts: 10

You didn't mention if you created the database before you did the install. You have to create a database by the name of DotNetNuke, create a user that has the role of db_owner and put that user in the 'uid=' and the password in the 'pwd=' part of the connection strings in the web config. There are two places to do that.  Thats one way that works sometimes. Though I must admit I am confused myself at this point. I can get the web site to come up but I can't get the .Net projects to work in Visual Studio. So I'm not totally there myself.

Tom
 
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11/14/2006 11:31 PM
 
Michael Gerholdt


Joined: 6/17/2003
Posts: 763

"I didn't make any changes to any files"

That could be the problem ... you must edit the web.config file to provide the connection string.

Find areas that look like this and change DBServerName, MyDBName,UserWithDBO_privs and ThatUsersPWD to the correct values.

  <connectionStrings>
    <add
      name="SiteSqlServer"
      connectionString="Server=DBServerName;Database=MyDBName;uid=UserWithDBO_privs;pwd=ThatUsersPWD;"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
  </connectionStrings>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="SiteSqlServer" value="Server=DBServerName;Database=MyDBName;uid=UserWithDBO_privs;pwd=ThatUsersPWD;"/>

pmgerholdt
 
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11/20/2006 2:50 PM
 
Michael Gerholdt


Joined: 6/17/2003
Posts: 763

Apologies for my uninformed response.

I am or was still stuck in the non-SQLExpress world. Had a bit to learn and was in the middle when I wrote that.

Still learning, for that matter ...

pmgerholdt
 
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