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I'm in the midst of one of my most hated of tasks; seting up a new computer with all the settings, etc. I need and IIS is throwing an error I've never sen before: Provider is not specified and there is no designated default provider.
Does anybody know what this means and, more importantly, how to fix it? Google has been naff all help, just giving me a load of computer jargon that's way over my head. I have my laptop here as well and, as best I can tell, everything related to the MySQL driver is the same on both machines.
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Does anybody know what this means and, more importantly, how to fix it? Google has been naff all help, just giving me a load of computer jargon that's way over my head. I have my laptop here as well and, as best I can tell, everything related to the MySQL driver is the same on both machines.
Search is your friend
“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to thefact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.”
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Did you install 32 bit or 64 bit drivers?
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Given my ignorance of the different types of OS (I still don't know what the difference between the two is), I uninstalled what I'd previously installed and ran mysql-connector-odbc-5.1.11-winx64.msi to be sure I had the right one. I'm still getting the same error, though.
Search is your friend
“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the
fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.”
Search is your friend
“I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to thefact that the mad priest lady from over the river had
taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.”
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Those were the drivers Davio had issues with. I suggest you remove them and install the 32 bit drivers instead. Those are (...)-win32.msi ones and see if it solves your problem.
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You probably need to configure your app pool to support 32 bit applications. You will need to do that in IIS Manager. Select the web site, choose Basic Settings, identify the app pool. Then click in Application Pools, right click the one you want, choose Advanced Settings and set Enable 32 bit applications to True.
That did the job. Many thanks, Rui
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Great, you're welcome 
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Now go research what the difference is between a 32bit and 64bit OS. (and don't say 32. lol) 
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It's not the number of drills in a computer toolkit, either.