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Bug - DotNetNuke Installation with Plesk

S. Schröder

New Pleskian
Hello,

the Database-Name / User-Name in a MS SQL connection string must not contain a hyphen.

Unfortunately PLESK generates the Database-Username with the prefix "PLESKUSERNAME_".
If the PLESKUSERNAME contains a hyphen, you will get something like this (DNN example):

admin-one => admin-one_DotNetNuke_1

After installing DotNetNuke with the PLESK wizard, you will get an connection error to the database during the first call of the DNN-Portal.

We think PLESK should replace the hyphen when generation the database prefix or should generally prevent to enter a hyphen in the username.
 
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