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I have developed a website for a client using Umbraco 7.4.3 and the website has filled with content and ready to go live. My client deploy this website under a subfolder of their own main domain, likes domain.com/newsite with virtual directory method on IIS. notes: main site is also umbraco.

When the new site accessed, it always redirected to /install just like the first-time installer wizard when we just deploy original Umbraco, though it keeps loading forever and not showing anything. I already found similar problem (deploy as subfolder/virtual directory) and following solution provided, but didn't find one exactly like my case. When I tried on my local machine (other than development one), I couldn't reproduce the problem.

I wonder what setting or configuration did Umbraco used to tell it to run installer? all *.config and database used exactly the same except connectionString.

yahyaman
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Solved.

When I check umbracos log file (located in App_Data\logs\) there is a database connection error. It seems that Umbraco checking version to database to determine whether it was first run or not.

yahyaman
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My issue was because I was inadvertently pointing my live web config at another of my Umbraco websites that used a different version of Umbraco - took a while to spot because there were no clues in the log files.

Stephen Garside
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