Hi ya'all! I hope your day is going well (or has gone well) and you are having a great week.

I know this question has probably been asked a few thousand times but I need to ask anyways, I am having a really hard time finding an answer to this simple question.

I am still learning DNN and am having a blast at it, it is a lot of fun! I even have a couple books now on the subject. The problem is that neither of them cover the subject of publishing my site when I am ready for it to go live.

I am looking for some sort of a tutorial, that will not cost me anything (I am now broke) with the step-by-step process of putting the site up.

I have been playing with one of the sites I built at http://chris.samuelmsr.com but I am getting errors and can not seem to resolve them. I am still fairly new to ASP.NET and the web.config file but I went in and (I think) I properly changed the <connectionstring> data. Most likely I did something wrong there but I do not know what. I uploaded my database using the database publishing wizard that is part of visual web developer.

 I would paste the code from my web.config and ask for help on fixing it but I do not see how I can post a code block on here and I am guessing that I will have a hard time putting that much information in one post.

Well, anyways I hope I posted this in the right forum and that you guys can give me a hand. I appreciate any and all help in advance!

Sam

 Hello William, thank you for that. I do not know why I did not catch that to begin with.

I did as you instructed and was able to follow the stack trace and fix 2 of my problems with the database connection strings, both of them "typos" on my part.

I am getting a new error that I do not know how to fix now, can you please visit the link and see the error page and see if it makes sense to you:

http://chris.samuelmsr.com

I am not sure at all how to fix this. Thanks in advance!

Sam

I have managed to get quite a bit done today on this. I did a lot of research, and learned quite a bit about the web.config that I did not know. I also realized that when I was using FileZilla to change directory permissions, it was actually not changing and was giving an unknown error in the message window. I will try and figure out why this is later, but I went to GoDaddy and used the FTP File Manager on their site to change permissions.

I have gotten as far as now I am getting this error:
Could not connect to database specified in connectionString for SqlDataProvider

Of course this is a problem in the web.config and I found the line with the SqlDataProvider string but I am not 100% sure what exactly I should put where.

I will give the line here:

<data defaultProvider="SqlDataProvider">
<providers>
<clear/>
<add name="SqlDataProvider" type="DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider" connectionStringName="SiteSqlServer" upgradeConnectionString="" providerPath="~\Providers\DataProviders\SqlDataProvider\" objectQualifier="" databaseOwner="dbo"/>
</providers>
</data>