DNN5 Shows Under Construction

Question

I recently upgraded my PC from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1 and am now having problems resetting up my local DNN5 environment.

I pulled my DNN5 instance down from a remote git repo, and just finished importing all of the tables/data/stored procedures from the production DB to a local instance.

I have updated the connection strings in the web.config to reflect my new database, but still, no matter what I do, I am getting redirected to http://localhost/DNN5/Install/UnderConstruction.htm.

What am I missing?

for completeness, here are my connection strings and a screencap of my db:

<connectionStrings>
    <add name="SiteSqlServer" connectionString="Data Source=KMCNUTT-7\DWYATTMSSQL;Initial Catalog=DNN5;User ID=sa;Password=******"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
    <add name="DNN5ConnectionString" connectionString="Data Source=KMCNUTT-7\DWYATTMSSQL;Initial Catalog=DNN5;User ID=sa;Password=******"
      providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>

Answer 1

This almost always happens when you are unable to connect to the database from DNN.

Navigate to

http://localhost/DNN5/Install/install.aspx 

and see if it throws a connection error just to be sure.

Is this a local database? If so try using (local)\InstanceName (I assume your instance name is DWYATTMSSQL) so (local)\DWYATTMSSQL

Also make sure that you have SQL authentication enabled in SQL server, instead of Windows Authentication only, which is the default for SQL installations.