Hi Nick,

I think what's happened is that the user running the website apppool did not have appropriate database permissions to install the uCommerce data objects. When you install uCommerce you should see some placeholder catalogs and products to give you an idea of how it all works.

You can take a look at the umbracoLog table and see if uCommerce wrote any useful information there.

EDIT - Our posts crossed

I've looked in the database and the SQL script that was supposed to install all tables timed-out.

I'm going to either increase the timeout or find a new machine to test on as this is obviously insufficient.

Thanks

Well I'm stuck at the next point.

Clickin "uCommerce" on the homepage will take me to www.domain.com/ucommerce/c-23 and gives me a 404.

Here's the last log entries that seem to be key to this issue:

Error    At / (Referred by: ): System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not find file 'C:\inetpub\Umbraco\App_Data\preview\0_c4b86f6a-e32b-4438-bdaf-3cf56cb85221.config'.[[snip]]
Error    The uCommerce license file is either empty or missing.

Any ideas?

Additional ErrorMessages just after the install: "Couldn't import property 'Content' as the property type doesn't exist on this document type" Presumably this would have something to do with me not having published the uCommerce demo store then.

Also when I try to login, even with the admin account, I just get the message "Your login attempt was not successful. Please try again."

Nothing is logged for this. I'm getting nowhere slowly.

Hi Nick,

It seems like you've got uCommerce up and running to some degree. The URL generated indicates that the database is up and running now. You might be experiencing issues with file permissions in the Umbraco website. uCommerce needs to modify /web.config (which seems to be in order) and also add custom rules to /config/UrlRewriting.config.

Can you verify that you've got these rules in UrlRewriting.config?

    <add name="DefaultCategoryProductRewrite" virtualUrl="(.*)/c-([0-9]+)/c-([0-9]+)/p-([0-9]+)" rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString" destinationUrl="~/shop/product.aspx?catalog=$2&amp;category=$3&amp;product=$4" ignoreCase="true" xmlns="" />
    <add name="DefaultProductRewrite" virtualUrl="(.*)/c-([0-9]+)/p-([0-9]+)" rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString" destinationUrl="~/shop/product.aspx?catalog=$2&amp;product=$3" ignoreCase="true" xmlns="" />
    <add name="DefaultCategoryRewrite" virtualUrl="(.*)/c-([0-9]+)/c-([0-9]+)" rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString" destinationUrl="~/shop/catalog.aspx?catalog=$2&amp;category=$3" ignoreCase="true" xmlns="" />
    <add name="DefaultCatalogRewrite" virtualUrl="(.*)/c-([0-9]+)" rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString" destinationUrl="~/shop/catalog.aspx?catalog=$2" ignoreCase="true" xmlns="" />

I have the rules in the UrlRewriting.config.

I've tried a fresh Umbraco installation on my local PC, which I know is fast and I can completely control, but now my Packages node is empty, so I can't install anything. The Umnbraco installation is trying to create a temporary class in the Windows/Temp folder, why there?

Every step I take I'm getting beaten by the extremeley narrow and undocumented system requirements that prevent Umbraco from working properly and the worst thing is the CMS itself mentions no problems. I have to keep looking in the Log-table to see what went wrong now. An apparent successful installation can mean utter failure. Sorry for the rant but so far (from this and all other issues I had like sudden 404 on the homepage of umbraco) my impression of Umbraco and uCommerce is that both are extremely unstable and supply no information about any problems.

Anyway, I'll keep trying. I'll just keep in mind that I'm a newbie at Umbraco. But I think building in more flexibility, failsafes and tests before claiming a successful install might prevent the first impression being such a negative one. Usually being blown away with a stable and goodlooking environment is the key reason for a purchase.

I have it running locally now, I had to set rights for the iis-user in C:\Windows\Temp even though that seems very strange to me. I still can't login though.

Also this error is in the logging: "Couldn't find any page with the nodeId = 1130. This is most likely caused by the page isn't published!  Parameter name: nodeId" - even though I published everything.

Unrelated to uCommerce - www.address.com/umbraco gave me a 404 all of the sudden. Now I apparently have to type umbraco.aspx behind it to make it work.

No luck on the server yet.

So far this is what solved my issues:
- Use a 'fast' computer, our virtual machine couldn't deal with the SQL-scripts and kept timing out.
- Give the IIS-user read/write rights on the entire website and Windows/Temp
- Watch the umbracoLog closely!

The Web Platform installer failed as well. Apparently it couldn't find the Umbraco package. No problem though, I wanted to install it myself anyway.

Thanks for your help. It is very much appreciated.

Are you seeing the uCommerce Store alright at this point?

Regarding the admin URL, you need to use either www.address.com/umbraco/ (notice the forward slash at the end) or the one you ended up with /umbraco/umbraco.aspx.

The server now works. I've asked our admin to set permissions for windows/temp, but more important I think is that the IIS AppPool was set to Classic instead of Intergrated mode.

So I have finally got something to show and play with.

The login still doesn't work. Not sure why it's there, except perhaps for members with a store account, which they can't make.

Thanks again for your help.

So far this is what solved my issues:
- Use a 'fast' computer, our virtual machine couldn't deal with the SQL-scripts and kept timing out.
- Give the IIS-user read/write rights on the entire website and Windows/Temp
- Watch the umbracoLog closely!
- Set the AppPool mode to Integrated

Good to hear. It will work in integrated mode as well. If you take a look at web.config you'll find config section for both classic and integrated modes.

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