problems manual install

Hi

due to some sudden problem we recently needed to delete and reinstall nopcommerce on the host server.

In order to get around the installation wizard problem described in https://www.nopcommerce.com/Boards/Topic.aspx?TopicID=2370 I tried a manual install.

As soon as we change the ConnectionStrings file we get either
a) an error message that the nt services user can't log in, even though the connection string contains explicit uid & pw
b) a message the shop is closed

In the case of a) we use exactly the same connection string as before store deletion. With b) we change the Integrated Security to False. Else nothing!! has been changed - database name, user, server etc exactly as before!!

Uploading our local files and just replacing the connectionstrings file also just causes an exception.

Please, please help with this problem - nopcommerce worked before and we already invested a lot of time, really like it and want to stick with it!!

We watched the installation screencast, searched the forum, reconfirmed machine and instance names, set up new databases, with and without running the scripts, googled ourselves to death, reinstalled nop 1.3 and 1.4 from scratch several times, all to no avail...

We really don't know where else to look or what else to try...

maybe  try uploading nopcommerce and create a new database, and see if it works then change the web.config to point to your current database to see what happens

...not sure I'm with you - the web.config points to ConnectionStrings.config, there's no other reference to the database as far as I can see

we tried several times setting up from scratch, each time with a brand new db

nopcommerce can access the databases with the connection string (we verified this twice with new dbs by changing the install.aspx to override the nextbuttonclick procedure, dropping the error checks but keeping the original functions, and the db tables are created just fine)

yet in the wizard it says database doesn't exist, and on manual from-scratch-install-with-nothing-changed, as soon as ConnectionStrings.config is replaced on the server, it comes back with an internal error

is there any chance it has anything to do with sql 2008? we just found out our provider recently upgraded, and we did have it working before with sql 2005

solved; posted a workaround if db is not found in master catalog:

https://www.nopcommerce.com/Boards/Topic.aspx?TopicID=2370