I'm having trouble setting up our external web server.
Since we have a pretty small audience, we got one cheap server and are using SQL Server Express for the database and ASP.NET for the application, all on one box. (We are using GoDaddy for the hosting.)
Regardless of how bad these constraints are, this is where I'm stuck.
Everything is working OK, except that SQL Server will not successfully complete an install. Originally I was using the Web Platform Installer for it, but it was trying to read the entire installer into memory to calculate the file hash.
Running the installer works almost all of the way to the end, which verifies to me that the server meets the minimum reqs to install.
GlobalRules:
AclPermissionsFacet Passed MediaPathLength Passed OsVersionCheck Passed RebootRequiredCheck Passed ThreadHasAdminPrivilegeCheck Passed WmiServiceStateCheck Passed
InstallGlobalRules:
SSMS_IsInternetConnected Not applicable This rule does not apply to your system configuration. AclPermissionsFacet Passed Bids2005InstalledCheck Passed BlockInstallSxS Passed FacetDomainControllerCheck Passed FacetPowerShellCheck Passed FacetWOW64PlatformCheck Passed FusionRebootCheck Passed IsFirewallEnabled Passed PerfMonCounterNotCorruptedCheck Passed SqlUnsupportedProductBlocker Passed
My most recent failure was "FixSqlRegistryKey_x86.exe - Application Error"
Any Ideas?
Did you buy the server and put it in a GoDaddy rack or are you renting a server from them? I'm not sure of their policies but maybe they don't allow people to modify the registry on their servers. Perhaps one of their employees would have to work with you on this install if this is the case.
Are you able to make any manual changes to the registry?