User-1851576699 posted
I am getting an 500 - internal error response when trying to view my website along with the error message: "
"A network-related or instance-specific error occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. The server was not found or was not accessible. Verify that the instance name is correct and that SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections.
(provider: SQL Network Interfaces, error: 50 - Local Database Runtime error occurred. Cannot create an automatic instance. See the Windows Application event log for error details."
When I move my website from the local project folder to the inetpub/wwwroot folder do I have to change my connection string in web.config to use some other than (localDb)\v11.0? My application is MVC and I am using "Code First" for my database functionality.
So the databases should get created automatically from the new location when the "attachDbFileName" portion of the connection string is seen but right now it's not working. Not sure what I need to change.
**EDIT**: Problem solved. Follow this link if you find yourself having similar problems.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlexpress/archive/2011/12/09/using-localdb-with-full-iis-part-1-user-profile.aspx
The only thing that wasn't true for me in the blog instructions on how to resolve this problem was a simple restart of the Web Application didn't work for me. I tried it twice. Afer that I just rebooted my computer and it resolved this specific problem.
Thanks peeps. You can all go back to sleep now. :)
