Server does not exist or access denied error connecting web2py to MS SQL server

[Steve Lyle]

I've read the book & plenty else offered by up on the little pits available on Prof. Google.

And I just don't get it I guess.

I'm on a Windows 10 Pro x64 box

I'm running web2py from cmd as:

"""

cd c:\web2py

python web2py

web2py Web Framework

Created by Massimo Di Pierro, Copyright 2007-2018

Version 2.17.1-stable+timestamp.2018.08.06.01.02.56

Database drivers available: sqlite3, imaplib, pyodbc, pymysql

please visit:

         http://127.0.0.1:8000/

starting browser...

"""

I do have python 2.7.15 installed as c:\python27; also have c:\anaconda3 installed but for this purposes I break anaconda by renaming the c:\anaconda3 to c:\X-anaconda3.

I validate that running python from cmd it is opening 2.7.15 as expected given the environment path.

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C:\web2py>python

Python 2.7.15 (v2.7.15:ca079a3ea3, Apr 30 2018, 16:30:26) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>>import pypyodbc

>>> import pyodbc

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

ImportError: No module named pyodbc

>>>

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Importing pypyodbc doesn't report any problems.

I believe the traceback below perfect proves 2.7.15 is running and expectedly calling the pypyodbc installed within 2.7.15.

Importing pyodbc shows the error demonstrated above even thought web2py reports it as an available driver.

I have no problems accessing the test DB from SSMS or other applications.

SQL server is dev edition 2017.

My web2py application is called 'init'.

Why does this configuration of pydal fail?

What more info can I offer you in this thread to get this fixed?

Any tips appreciated.

--- from applications\init\private\appconfig.ini ------

; db configuration

[db]

uri       = mssql://sa:blabla@localhost/test

migrate   = true

pool_size = 10  

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Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\web2py\gluon\restricted.py", line 219, in restricted

    exec(ccode, environment)

  File "C:/web2py/applications/init/models/db.py", line 36, in <module>

    check_reserved=['all'])

  File "C:\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\base.py", line 170, in __call__

    obj = super(MetaDAL, cls).__call__(*args, **kwargs)

  File "C:\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\base.py", line 475, in __init__

    "Failure to connect, tried %d times:\n%s" % (attempts, tb)

RuntimeError: Failure to connect, tried 5 times:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\base.py", line 455, in __init__

    self._adapter = adapter(**kwargs)

  File "C:\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\adapters\__init__.py", line 40, in __call__

    obj = super(AdapterMeta, cls).__call__(*args, **kwargs)

  File "C:\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\adapters\mssql.py", line 31, in __init__

    driver_args, adapter_args, do_connect, after_connection)

  File "C:\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\adapters\base.py", line 369, in __init__

    super(SQLAdapter, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)

  File "C:\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\adapters\base.py", line 53, in __init__

    self.reconnect()

  File "C:\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\connection.py", line 172, in reconnect

    self.connection = self.connector()

  File "C:\web2py\gluon\packages\dal\pydal\adapters\mssql.py", line 81, in connector

    return self.driver.connect(self.cnxn, **self.driver_args)

  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pypyodbc.py", line 2454, in __init__

    self.connect(connectString, autocommit, ansi, timeout, unicode_results, readonly)

  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pypyodbc.py", line 2507, in connect

    check_success(self, ret)

  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pypyodbc.py", line 1009, in check_success

    ctrl_err(SQL_HANDLE_DBC, ODBC_obj.dbc_h, ret, ODBC_obj.ansi)

  File "c:\Python27\lib\site-packages\pypyodbc.py", line 987, in ctrl_err

    raise DatabaseError(state,err_text)

DatabaseError: (u'08001', u'[08001] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]SQL Server does not exist or access denied.')

[Steve Lyle]

--- edit 20180831 ---

In the light of the new morning I figured this much out.

Changes:

appconfig.ini---

[db]

connectionstring = mssql://DRIVER={FreeTDS};SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=etl_metadata;UID=sa;PWD=d0taCell1!

---

db.py---

db = DAL(configuration.get('db.connectionstring'))

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result error---

Error: (u'IM002', u'[IM002] [Microsoft][ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified')

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