无法通过IIS访问SQL Server

Question

I want to run my ASP.NET MVC application on the local IIS 8 server but I can't get access to SQL Server 2014. Both IIS and SQL Server run on the same host and I am using Windows 8. This is what I have done so far:

In the application I created a model called Employee :

public class Employee
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

I want to connect to the database with using Entity Framework so I created another class called EmployeeDbContext :

public class EmployeeDbContext : DbContext
{
    public DbSet<Employee> Employees { get; set; }
}

I have only one Home controller:

public string Index()
{
    EmployeeDbContext employeeDbContext = new EmployeeDbContext();
    return "Hello world";
}

I am using SQL Server 2014 Express engine with Windows Authentication and the name of my computer is ZSÓTÉ. Here is the connection string from the web.config :

<add name="EmployeeDbContext" 
     connectionString="Server=ZSÓTÉ\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=Test;Integrated Security=SSPI" 
     providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />

In the Global.asax I didn't set any initializer strategy so by default if the Test database doesn't exist, then the application should create it automatically.

After that I set on the properties window to use IIS Local Server and I create a virtual directory for the application. So far everything is ok, I can see the application in the IIS manager and I set to run under the DefaultAppPool . After that I set all the permissions of the project folder for the IIS APPPOOL\\DefaultAppPool object. The settings are fine I can access the application from the IIS server perfectly.

Finally I created a login for IIS APPPOOL\\DefaultAppPool in SQL Server Management Studio and I set these two roles: public and dbcreator . But even after all these setups the application doesn't work correctly via IIS.

Though I get the "Hello world" message on the browser, but the Test database is never created. The strangest thing is if I make some malicious change in the connection string, I don't even get any compilation error, just the "Hello world" message in the browser.

What am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

The database is created the first time you access to entities.
Try to do this:

public string Index()
{
    EmployeeDbContext employeeDbContext = new EmployeeDbContext();
    employeeDbContext.Employees.ToList();
    return "Hello world";
}

At this point you will receive an error if db creation does not work.

Next steps if something still does not work:
In the connection string use .\\SQLEXPRESS because could happen everything to accents.
Assign to the user in SQL Server system administration role. If it work you then start to reduce rights (or, better, change approach).