David,
First of all I wanted to say this is a great article, easy to follow, and well thought out. I am new to the Drupal world and I am trying to evaluate how Drupal stacks up against some of the other CMS systems our company has worked with in the past years. I have been able to get to the step in your tutorial where Drupal is ready to be configured. I currently have it setup to use require the 1.0 version of Drupal SQL Server module since we are just evaluating the feasibility of possibly transitioning to Drupal. I see the browser page in the Drupal configuration process where it is now asking me to enter the MS SQL information for the database I setup for my Drupal site. However, when I enter in this info, I keep getting the same screen with an the following message:
Failed to connect to your database server. The server reports the following message: .
Is the database server running?
Does the database exist, and have you entered the correct database name?
Have you entered the correct username and password?
Have you entered the correct database hostname?
I have triple checked all of this info and it is correct. I have also ran SQL Profiler, Fiddler, and checked the event logs to see if they could give me any indication what might be going on behind the scenes. There was nothing of any interest to be found. It is almost as if Drupal and PHP have no visibility to MS SQL. That it isn't even getting to MS SQL to actually try and authenticate and start creating the tables it needs. Any idea what I should be looking at to see how to get past this step?
David,
First of all I wanted to say this is a great article, easy to follow, and well thought out. I am new to the Drupal world and I am trying to evaluate how Drupal stacks up against some of the other CMS systems our company has worked with in the past years. I have been able to get to the step in your tutorial where Drupal is ready to be configured. I currently have it setup to use require the 1.0 version of Drupal SQL Server module since we are just evaluating the feasibility of possibly transitioning to Drupal. I see the browser page in the Drupal configuration process where it is now asking me to enter the MS SQL information for the database I setup for my Drupal site. However, when I enter in this info, I keep getting the same screen with an the following message:
Failed to connect to your database server. The server reports the following message: .
Is the database server running?
Does the database exist, and have you entered the correct database name?
Have you entered the correct username and password?
Have you entered the correct database hostname?
I have triple checked all of this info and it is correct. I have also ran SQL Profiler, Fiddler, and checked the event logs to see if they could give me any indication what might be going on behind the scenes. There was nothing of any interest to be found. It is almost as if Drupal and PHP have no visibility to MS SQL. That it isn't even getting to MS SQL to actually try and authenticate and start creating the tables it needs. Any idea what I should be looking at to see how to get past this step?
Thanks in advance for any help.