I need help connecting my Web App to a remote database (SQL Server). I have tried many suggested solutions but I can't seem to come right.
This is how I connect to a local database, it works 100%:
<add name="DBCS" connectionString="Data Source=serverName;Initial Catalog=MVNE_Website;Integrated Security=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
My ASP.NET Web App is hosted on one server, and the database is on a separate server.
The remote DB server is 100% configured to allow remote connections and firewall rules also adhere to the connection protocols. I think it is just my connection string that is incorrect but I don't know why??
Here it is(conn string for remote SQL server)
<add name="DBCS" connectionString="server=serverIP\serverName; database=MVNE_Website; Integrated Security=True" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
I don't use a username or password when connecting to this remote SQL Server so I did not see a point in adding it in the conn string?
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In my web.config file custom errors mode was on RemoteOnly, so I turned it off and saw that my connection string was never the problem, the actual problem was that the app was trying to insert null into a primary key field that does not allow null, i never set the PK to auto increment .. sorry and thanks