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# help-with-umbraco
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brynjarthorsteinsson

10/04/2023, 11:01 AM
Hey everyone, I have a website in Umbraco 12 I am trying to launch on IIS but haven´t been successful yet. When running the website I get the typical boot failed Umbraco screen that tells you to check the logs. This is the log dump that I get: Usually it says something about the boot failure but this time there is nothing. Any ideas on how to debug it? The site runs well locally on visual studio, no problems there. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1159082887556104253/1159082887803580457/message.txt?ex=651e978f&is=651d460f&hm=bd4518b21b4dd846bacc359b80cc6b24b197bd042754d97a741cada2c10a809c&
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Sebastiaan

10/04/2023, 11:20 AM
Now listening on: {address}","address":"http://localhost:5000"
Application started. Press Ctrl+C to shut down.
Seems to have started just fine. Try http://localhost:5000 on that machine?
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brynjarthorsteinsson

10/04/2023, 11:39 AM
You are 100% correct. Didn´t think of that. Just got the boot failed screen and stopped there. Thanks Sebastiaan.
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Sebastiaan

10/04/2023, 11:42 AM
Think you might be looking at a different domain that's failing, DNS didn't update maybe?
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brynjarthorsteinsson

10/04/2023, 11:46 AM
Yeah, probably something like that. I am just testing this out locally on my own IIS server and http://localhost returns the boot failed screen but the http://localhost:5000 returns everything correctly.
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Sebastiaan

10/04/2023, 11:48 AM
Yes, by default it runs on port 5000, but IIS should forward port 80 to that I guess. I haven't used IIS in forever, so I don't actually remember how to set that up properly (I assume you're following our docs though).
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brynjarthorsteinsson

10/04/2023, 12:14 PM
Yeah, found out that having the localhost on IIS point to port 80 was making the logs not log. Changed it to 5000 and then I got the logs for it. Ended up being the classic sql server not found exception.
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Sebastiaan

10/04/2023, 12:21 PM
Glad you found it!