Hi Guys,

I have succesfully installed umbraco on my shared hosting account on godaddy. Now as I develop my website with Umbraco I need to do my testing locally. Well For some reason It is failing on me.

I had the same issue with the shared hosting at this step. Adding read/write permissions to the containing folder for the umbraco install fixed this. On my localhost this isnt working too well. I have added permissions for just about everything I can and still get the: Database connection initialisation failed.

I have tried logins for a created user in my database and the sa log ins.

Log in credentials:

Database type: Microsoft SQL Server

Server:JonCook-PC/SQLEXPRESS

database: umbraco

user: jon

pass: ********

Maybe some one has had this same error that can help?