Thus far, whenever I try to create a new Umbraco Site, I have a quirky experience. I've tried this on 2 computers and the experience has been the same. This has been my work around.
I'm using Windows7
How can I determine the version of Umbraco - all I see is Umbraco CMS(9.24 MB)?
I have never been able to select 'SQL Server' in step 6 instead of SQL Server CE.
1. Setup a Blank Database in SQL Server for your Umbraco site - Make sure to create a Username and Password and make it SQL Server Login
2. For example - create TestSite1 by the sa - (knowing the password)
3. Start Webmatrix
4. Select App Gallery and then Umbraco
5. Name the site - for example TestSite1
6. I hate this part - Select the default SQL Server CE - just to avoid the error - because if you select SQL Server and put in a password, it will error out.
8. Note the Web Browser Window that opens up and select 'Lets get started'
9. Select "I already have a blank SQL Server or MySQL database'
10. This time I note that after I select "Microsoft SQL Server" under #3 even though it says 'Connection Details" - there are no text boxes and the only choice is to click install. If I do this then it will just hang at 5%.
12. So I did a hard reset - "ctrl+F5" and lo and behold the textboxes for the connection details appeared.
13. I fill in "." as the server (which is my local instance), for Database Name: TestSite1, username: sa, regular password
14. I do know how to test, because this worked.
15. Now create the user for Umbraco admin - it's my Windows login for DEV-T3500
16. And now a site has been created.
If there was something incorrect about this procedure or if I missed any prerequistes, please kindly point out what I am missing. I am trying to create documentation for this for our group and thus far I haven't seen anything that is consistent without workarounds such as what I do in steps 6 and 12.
Creating a new Site for Umbraco
Thus far, whenever I try to create a new Umbraco Site, I have a quirky experience. I've tried this on 2 computers and the experience has been the same. This has been my work around.
I'm using Windows7
How can I determine the version of Umbraco - all I see is Umbraco CMS(9.24 MB)?
I have never been able to select 'SQL Server' in step 6 instead of SQL Server CE.
1. Setup a Blank Database in SQL Server for your Umbraco site - Make sure to create a Username and Password and make it SQL Server Login
If there was something incorrect about this procedure or if I missed any prerequistes, please kindly point out what I am missing. I am trying to create documentation for this for our group and thus far I haven't seen anything that is consistent without workarounds such as what I do in steps 6 and 12.
Thank you
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