Installing EpiServer Community on a commerce site

Posted byKhurram Khan 3 Comments on Installing EpiServer Community on a commerce site

Installing EPiServer relate on an EPiServer CMS 7 site working with EPiServer Commerce can be a challenge, This post can be helpful for those who are trying to do this or facing issue in installing other EPiServer products.

Technologies under discussion are
EPiServer CMS 7.1,
EPiServer Commerce 1 R3
EPiServer Relate+ 7

Issue: Installing Commerce and Relate (Community) is a no go
http://world.episerver.com/Support/Bug-list-beta/bug/95414/


Issue details:
An unhandled error has occured:
 The argument is null or empty. Supply an argument that is not null or empty and
 then try the command again.
When executing
At C:Program Files (x86)EPiServerCommonFramework7.0.844.1InstallSystem Sc
 riptsUpgrade Site.ps1:93 char:17
+ -SqlServerName <<<< $properties.DatabaseServerName `

 An unhandled error has occured:
 The argument is null or empty. Supply an argument that is not null or empty and
 then try the command again.
When executing
At C:Program Files (x86)EPiServerCommonFramework7.0.844.1InstallSystem Sc
 riptsUpgrade Site.ps1:93 char:17
+ -SqlServerName <<<< $properties.DatabaseServerName `
=
Get-EPiIsBulkInstalling
At C:Program Files (x86)EPiServerCommonFramework7.0.844.1InstallSystem ScriptsUpgrade Site.ps1:93 char:17
 + -SqlServerName <<<< $properties.DatabaseServerName `
System.Management.Automation.ParentContainsErrorRecordException: Cannot validate argument on parameter ‘SqlServerName’. The argument is null or empty. Supply an argument that is not null or empty and then try the command again.


Possible Solutions:
Solution 1:
  • Follow process for installing CMS 7, Relate, Commerce
  • Install Site with database, with Commerce and the sample site
  • Install a Relate site and note references. 
  • Add the same references to the Commerce site
  • Copy and paste Community/Mail related sections of web.config in the Relate site to the commerce web.config
  • Find the install database script in the install directory for Relate, run the script against the site database to create the Community tables.
(I will write a separate post that how we can merge a community data base with a CMS database.)

Solution 2: STAR Solution, I tried a different approach that can be used in other setup related issues also. 
  • Find the issue in PS1
  • Fix the issue in PS1 File.
  • Remove the Signature At the bottom of the site. e.g # SIG # Begin signature block …………………………………………… # SIG # End signature block
  • Now File is no longer signed therfore we will need some power shell policy adjustments.
  • PS C:Userstobias> Set-ExecutionPolicy ‘unrestricted’
  • Set-ExecutionPolicy -scope CurrentUser -executionPolicy Unrestricted
  • Re-Run the setup and fix the other Issues.

I tried this approach to solve some issues while installing Commerce on a hosting server also.

3 replies on “Installing EpiServer Community on a commerce site”

  2. Hi,

    I have the same issue trying to install commerce to a CMS (mvc) site.

    Could you elaborate a bit on what the issue in the PS1 file is? Is the property wrong or have you just hardcoded a db name?

    Thanks in advance!

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