I'm working to try and get a migrated Umbraco/YAF installation working, but I'm having issues with connectivity.
I've already asked for help with the Connection Strings, so this bit is sorted.
However, I still get a 404 error when I try and navigate to mysite/forums, as it redirects to mysite/install
This site tells me that this could be because of a few issues:
It will connect you to install\default.aspx if
: its connect to a db but thinks there isn't a YAF version present in its data, or
: database version doesn't match and thinks it needs updating.
I know it's connecting to the DB, because the CMS connection string works, and it's connecting to the same database.
There are YAF_* tables in the database, so I know it's content is there.
By process of elimination, it might be a version issue, but I'm not sure how to compare the DB version to the ASP files version.
I'm running Umbraco 4.6.1
I never quite worked out what version I was running, but I did find out this issue was fixed by:
Assign yaf database user db-owner privileges.
And there you have it.