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# Sitefinity project stuck at warming up
- URL: https://blog.tsd.digital/sitefinity-project-stuck-at-warming-up/
- Published: 2020-04-30T15:15:16.000Z
- Updated: 2020-04-30T15:15:16.000Z
- Author: Tim Gaunt
- Tags: Sitefinity, Development, Web Development, #Import 2025-04-01 05:38

We've had the opportunity recently to start working with the enterprise grade CMS Sitefinity in a little more depth than our previous Ucommerce consultancy which has been a welcome break. It's been pretty straight forward to get up and running in contrast to some of the other Enterprise Grade CMS systems like Kentico and Sitecore (in a good way) but we did hit one snag which wasn't immediately obvious. If you get stuck at the installation screen which looks like this: !\[Sitefinity\](/media/38767/2020-04-30\_16-24-09-19.jpg) Then it's likely you've hit the same issue we did. If you open Chrome's developer tools, you may notice that there's an erroring calls to \`status\` -or if you're lucky you'll get the error screen with the error: The connection string name is missing for the MySqlSiteMapProvider (C:\\Windows\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v4.0.30319\\Config\\machine.config line 275) ---> The connection string name is missing for the MySqlSiteMapProvider The fix is pretty simple, open up your \`web.config\` file and look for the \`\` block at the start of the providers to clear your \`machine.config\` setting: \`\`\` \`\`\`