I'm going crazy about this error, I can't get installed Umbraco 4.7.2. I get to step 3 with the error: Database connection initialisation failed. The strange thing is that neither SQL CE 4 or SQL Server works. Boths gave the same error. Tried everthing:
Permissions to files are correct (the web.config file is changed with the connection string)
Could be any number of things, though it's a somewhat frequent problem. I know that the Our search sucks, but you can use the following search string in Google to limit the Google results to our.umbraco.org
There are quite a few posts (and solutions) to this issue. The very first search result has some good advice.
You saying "Tried everything" doesn't really mean much though. At the most you tried everything you know, but that is not necessarily everything. It would be helpful if you were to list what it is that you have tried, a lot easier to point out what was missing or what could be the cause of the problem that way.
Database connection initialisation failed
Hello
I'm going crazy about this error, I can't get installed Umbraco 4.7.2. I get to step 3 with the error: Database connection initialisation failed. The strange thing is that neither SQL CE 4 or SQL Server works. Boths gave the same error. Tried everthing:
Could be any number of things, though it's a somewhat frequent problem. I know that the Our search sucks, but you can use the following search string in Google to limit the Google results to our.umbraco.org
site:our.umbraco.org Database connection initialisation failed
There are quite a few posts (and solutions) to this issue. The very first search result has some good advice.
You saying "Tried everything" doesn't really mean much though. At the most you tried everything you know, but that is not necessarily everything. It would be helpful if you were to list what it is that you have tried, a lot easier to point out what was missing or what could be the cause of the problem that way.
Hello Peter
Thanks for your reply. My problem was the connection string. The name of the instance in my case was not needed.
Wrong: server=SERVERNAME\MSSQLSERVER;database=Umbraco472;user id=admin;password=*****
Correct: server=SERVERNAME;database=Umbraco472;user id=admin;password=****
It was an awful problem, but it now works ok!
Regards,
Jorge
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