SQL Server Database Information
Database Name	DB_47812
Host Name:	whsql-v07.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net
DSN Name Information
Select DSN Option	Create DSN	Hosting Manager Help Create, Recreate, or Remove DSN Description: Select this option to create, recreate, or remove a DSN for this database.
SQL Server Database Connection Information
User Name	ShadowSystems
Select Update Option	Update Password
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ASP.Net 2.0 SQL Server Schema Features
Current Install Status	Not Installed
Select Installation Option	Install Schema Features

that is what the SQL Serer Settings give me for information

Here is my connection string
  <connectionStrings>
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2005 Express -->
    <add
      name="SiteSqlServer"
      connectionString="Data Source=.\SQLExpress;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|Database.mdf;"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
    <!-- Connection String for SQL Server 2000/2005
    <add
      name="SiteSqlServer"
      connectionString="Server=.\whsql-v07.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net;Database=DB_47812;uid=ShadowSystems;pwd=PASSWORD;"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
   -->
  </connectionStrings>


and this is the error i get when i try to install

Error Installing DotNetNuke

Current Assembly Version: 04.00.02

ERROR: Could not connect to database specified in connectionString for SqlDataProviderSystem.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.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText) at DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.ExecuteScript(String Script, Boolean UseTransactions) /************************************************************/ /***** Initialization Script *****/ /***** *****/ /***** *****/ /***** Note: To manually execute this script you must *****/ /***** perform a search and replace operation *****/ /***** for dbo. and *****/ /***** *****/ /************************************************************/ if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'Version') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsTable') = 1) begin if '' <> '' begin EXECUTE sp_rename N'dbo.Version', N'Version', 'OBJECT' EXECUTE sp_rename N'PK_Version', N'PK_Version', 'OBJECT' EXECUTE sp_rename N'IX_Version', N'IX_Version', 'INDEX' ALTER TABLE dbo.Version ADD CONSTRAINT IX_Version UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED ( Major, Minor, Build ) ON [PRIMARY] end end else begin if not exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'Version') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsTable') = 1) begin CREATE TABLE dbo.Version ( [VersionId] [int] IDENTITY (1, 1) NOT NULL , [Major] [int] NOT NULL , [Minor] [int] NOT NULL , [Build] [int] NOT NULL , [CreatedDate] [datetime] NOT NULL ) ON [PRIMARY] ALTER TABLE dbo.Version WITH NOCHECK ADD CONSTRAINT [PK_Version] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( [VersionId] ) ON [PRIMARY] ALTER TABLE dbo.Version ADD CONSTRAINT IX_Version UNIQUE NONCLUSTERED ( Major, Minor, Build ) ON [PRIMARY] end end 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.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText) at DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.ExecuteScript(String Script, Boolean UseTransactions) if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'GetDatabaseVersion') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsProcedure') = 1) drop procedure dbo.GetDatabaseVersion 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.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText) at DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.ExecuteScript(String Script, Boolean UseTransactions) create procedure dbo.GetDatabaseVersion as select Major, Minor, Build from Version where VersionId = ( select max(VersionId) from Version ) 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.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText) at DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.ExecuteScript(String Script, Boolean UseTransactions) if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'FindDatabaseVersion') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsProcedure') = 1) drop procedure dbo.FindDatabaseVersion 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.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText) at DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.ExecuteScript(String Script, Boolean UseTransactions) create procedure dbo.FindDatabaseVersion @Major int, @Minor int, @Build int as select 1 from Version where Major = @Major and Minor = @Minor and Build = @Build 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.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText) at DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.ExecuteScript(String Script, Boolean UseTransactions) if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'UpdateDatabaseVersion') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsProcedure') = 1) drop procedure dbo.UpdateDatabaseVersion 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.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText, SqlParameter[] commandParameters) at Microsoft.ApplicationBlocks.Data.SqlHelper.ExecuteNonQuery(String connectionString, CommandType commandType, String commandText) at DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider.ExecuteScript(String Script, Boolean UseTransactions) create procedure dbo.UpdateDatabaseVersion @Major int, @Minor int, @Build int as insert into Version ( Major, Minor, Build, CreatedDate ) values ( @Major, @Minor, @Build, getdate() )

can anyone help me figure out what stupid mistake i'm making

i got rid of the .\ and it still doesn't work and i have the same key in appSettings. Any other thaughts?