I have tried on two different machines to add the blog module to my DNN installation (4.3.1), but I receive the same error on both.  The error seems to indicate that there is a problem connecting to the database, but all other elements work fine - the problem is limited to the blog module.

The error is shown below.  Any help would be appreciated.

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Error: View_Blog is currently unavailable. DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) ---> System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections. (provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 26 - Error Locating Server/Instance Specified) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionPool.GetConnection(DbConnection owningObject) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection) at System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory) at System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelperParameterCache.DiscoverSpParameterSet(SqlConnection connection, String spName, Boolean includeReturnValueParameter, Object[] parameterValues) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelperParameterCache.GetSpParameterSetInternal(SqlConnection connection, String spName, Boolean includeReturnValueParameter) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelperParameterCache.GetSpParameterSet(String connectionString, String spName, Boolean includeReturnValueParameter) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelperParameterCache.GetSpParameterSet(String connectionString, String spName) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteReader(String connectionString, String spName, Object[] parameterValues) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Blog.Data.SqlDataProvider.GetBlogModuleSettings(Int32 PortalID, Int32 TabID) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Blog.Business.Utility.GetBlogModuleSettings(Int32 PortalID, Int32 TabID) at DotNetNuke.Modules.Blog.ViewBlog.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---

Hello.

The section is located in the web.config. Named <app.Settings>.

In this section there's an entry

<add name="SiteSqlServer" ....

here you have to define the connection string a second time. At my provider,

this section was commented out and i had the same problem, but with commenting

out this section, it works...

regards

markus