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  • Christopher Melen 1 post 21 karma points
    Dec 14, 2010 @ 22:59
    Christopher Melen
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    Getting 'The installer cannot connect to the database.' when trying to configure database.

    Hi,

    New to Umbraco, after having experimented with both Joomla and Drupal for a bit. I am attempting to run Umbraco on localhost via Cassini, but when I get to the databse configuration step I get this error message:

    'Database connection initialisation failed. The installer cannot connect to the database.'

    I've checked out the other posts relating to this error, but they haven't seemed very helpful.

    I have both MySQL and MSSQLExpress installed, and both are running as Windows services. What I don't see is a VistaDB option, even though I have the vistadb folder under build/data.

    I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling both MySQL and MSSQL, and resetting users and passwords, but I always get this error.

    Many thanks in advance for any suggestions as to how to proceed.

    Christopher

    P.S: I am running Umbraco 4.5.1 for .NET 3.5, on XP.

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  • Sascha Wolter 615 posts 1101 karma points
    Dec 15, 2010 @ 01:17
    Sascha Wolter
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    Hi Christopher,

    here is a good deal of information about the installation process if you haven't come across it yet: http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/install-and-setup.

    Things you might want to check out:

    - Is the MSSQL server configured correctly for Umbraco (tcp/ip and pipeline config)? I assume you have checked that you can log in with your custom sql user using management studio?

    - Has the sql user the necessary permissions for the Umbraco db?

    - Has the Application Pool user permission to write to the web.config file?

    Hope that helps,

    Sascha

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