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1/23/2006 12:26 PM
 
George Messman

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Posts: 7

 I have been trying to install and load dotnetnuke for a week and a half. I reintalled, following the instruction for the "Starter Kit" this morning and am still getting the below error when thrying to start dotnetnuke from IE. Do I have one error or three?

Help! I didn't plan on installing dotnetnuke being a career move.

George

Server Error in '/DotNetNuke' 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 84: 
Line 85:             'Determine the Upgrade status and redirect to Install.aspx
Line 86:             Select Case GetUpgradeStatus()
Line 87:                 Case Globals.UpgradeStatus.Install, Globals.UpgradeStatus.Upgrade
Line 88:                     If AutoUpgrade Then

Source File: C:\Documents and Settings\gmessman\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\WebSites\DotNetNuke Website1\App_Code\Global.asax.vb    Line: 86

Stack Trace: 

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
   DotNetNuke.Common.Utilities.Config.GetConnectionString(String name) +47
   DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider..ctor() +126

[TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.]
   System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly, Boolean noCheck, Boolean& canBeCached, RuntimeMethodHandle& ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck) +0
   System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean fillCache) +103
   System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceImpl(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks, Boolean fillCache) +261
   System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic) +66
   DotNetNuke.Framework.Reflection.CreateObject(String TypeName, String CacheKey, Boolean UseCache) +230
   DotNetNuke.Framework.Reflection.CreateObject(String ObjectProviderType, String ObjectProviderName, String ObjectNamespace, String ObjectAssemblyName, Boolean UseCache) +571
   DotNetNuke.Data.DataProvider.CreateProvider() +39
   DotNetNuke.Data.DataProvider..cctor() +13

[TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'DotNetNuke.Data.DataProvider' threw an exception.]
   DotNetNuke.Common.Globals.GetUpgradeStatus() +324
   DotNetNuke.Common.Global.CheckVersion() in C:\Documents and Settings\gmessman\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\WebSites\DotNetNuke Website1\App_Code\Global.asax.vb:86
   DotNetNuke.Common.Global.Application_Start(Object Sender, EventArgs E) in C:\Documents and Settings\gmessman\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\WebSites\DotNetNuke Website1\App_Code\Global.asax.vb:263

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.42
 
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1/25/2006 2:32 PM
 
boris courot

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I have same problem with windows XP PRO SP2.
 
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1/25/2006 4:58 PM
 
Harbachan Sardar

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I had the same error while installing DNN 3.2.2. The reason for the error on for me(very silly) was I had WEB.CONFIG file renamed as web.config.config. I changed it back to Web.Config and it worked like a charm.

Hope this helps.
 
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1/25/2006 5:47 PM
 
Charles Nurse


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These are cascading errors - the top one is the one that matters, but it causes the other two.

Anyway, the error indicates that there is no connectionString.

I would suspect that you have not renamed release.config to web.config or do not have a valid connection String for your database.
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