ASP.NET MVC 3应用程序无法连接到AWS实例上的SQL Server 2008实例

Question

When running an ASP.NET MVC 3 app (written in VS 2010, tested and working using SQL Server Express 2012, .NET 4.0, Windows 7 Pro) on an Amazon Web Services host (Windows Server 2008, ASP.NET 4.0 app pool, SQL Server Express 2008, IIS7), I am unable to connect to the local database on that machine, nor see any errors in connecting. I am using the following ConnectionString in Web.config:

name="DefaultConnection" connectionString="Data Source=.;Initial Catalog=aspnet-NewWebSite-20141030101548;Integrated Security=SSPI" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"

Is there a modification I should make to this to make it work? I can't upgrade to SQL Server 2012 on this AWS instance. I can't even log to the Event Viewer or email errors to myself. I'm stumped.

Answer 1

Your connection string is pointing to a local db instance, and AWS probably doesn't support LocalDB. What you want to do is to get a DB instance that supports remote connection ( you can get one from AWS directly) and find out the connection string of that server, change yours accordingly.