I am working on IIS 7, SQL Express 2008.
I’m trying to use the Web Site Administration Tool to set up some users in a membership db. I have the tables set up but when I click on the security tab in the web app I get an exception “There is a problem with your selected data store…” the error i get is
"The following message may help in diagnosing the problem: Cannot open database "ticketinventory" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'sa'"
The connection string I am using is "data source=kyrian-pc\sqlexpress;Initial Catalog=ticketinventory;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=sa;Password=******;"
(I know to not use sa for a connection string, this is just to get it to work initially and I have removed the password with ** )
I can log into sql with the sa username and password and query the membership tables. If I change the querystring to a fake user name I see the error message in the web app reflect that username so I know it is using the right connection string.
As far as I can tell this should be working but I am obviously missing something. Any ideas?
EDIT
It turns out the issue has something to do with my connection string itself. I created a test page with this code
using (System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection conn = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings[“ApplicationServices”].ConnectionString))
{
conn.Open();
conn.Close();
}
and this throws a login exception. For whatever reason my other connection string are being stored in the appSettings so there is some difference that I am now trying to work out.
Despite checking it 5 or 6 times I had the db name wrong in the connection string. Problem solved.
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