Install Sana Commerce Webshop on Web and Database Server

Step 1: Open the 'web.config' file of the 'Sana.Commerce.StarterSite' project in any text editor ('Notepad' for example).

Step 2: Locate the 'connectionStrings' configuration section:

<connectionStrings>
    <remove name="LocalSqlServer" />
    <add name="IndexDirectory" connectionString="IndexDirectoryFolder"/>
    <add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Server=ServerName\InstanceName;initial catalog=DatabaseName;User Id=Username;Password=Password;MultipleActiveResultSets=true;" />
    <add name="AxWebService" connectionString=
  "EndPointConfigurationName=AX;UserName=UserName;Password=Password;Domain=Domain;"/>
    <add name="NavisionStandardService" connectionString="NavisionServiceUrl"/>
</connectionStrings>

Step 3: Delete the following lines:

<add name="AxWebService" connectionString=
"EndPointConfigurationName=AX;UserName=UserName;Password=Password;Domain=Domain;"/>
<add name="NavisionStandardService" connectionString="NavisionServiceUrl"/>

Step 4: Replace the following values:

#INDEXDIRECTORYFOLDER#: The path to the folder where the index files are stored.
#SERVERNAME\INSTANCENAME#: Database server name or IP address of the SQL database server and optionally the SQL server instance name.
#DATABASENAME#: Name of the SQL database used in 'Setup the SQL Database'.
#USERNAME#: Database username used in 'Setup the SQL Database'.
#PASSWORD#: Password of the database user.

Step 5: Open the 'web.config' file of the 'Sana.Commerce.BackOffice' project in any text editor.

Step 6: Locate the 'appSettings' configuration section:

<appSettings>
     <add key="FrontendUrl" value="ShopUrl"/>
     <add key="FrontendPath" value="PhysicalPathToFrontendFolder"/>
     <add key="FrontendContentPath" value="PhysicalPathToFrontendFolder\content\files"/>
     <add key="FrontendThumbnailPath" value="/content/files/images/ProductImages/Small/"/>
</appSettings>

More detailed information about frontend and frontend content paths can be found here.

Step 7: Replace the #FRONTENDURL# value, which should have the following form:

"#ROTOCOL#://#WEBSITEDOMAINNAME#:#PORT#"

where:
#PROTOCOL#: the protocol which is used for connecting to the SC website (HTTP or HTTPS)
#WEBSITEDOMANINAME#: the website address that is registered in the DNS servers of your network.
#PORT# (optional): the port number when it is not the default HTTP port number (80).

Attribute 'FrontendThumbnailPath' specifies the path to the folder which is used for storing the product images.
Attribute 'FrontendContentPath' specifies the folder which is used for storing the content files.

If your website and backoffice have different domains you should create the 'images' virtual directory in the 'BackOffice' website in IIS with the path to the original 'images' directory in the 'StarterSite' website. This is done in order for HTML editor in backoffice to manage the content images correctly. 'Images' Virtual Directory in the 'Backoffice' Website in IIS

Step 8: Locate the 'connectionStrings' configuration section:

<connectionStrings>
  <clear/>
 <add name="IndexDirectory" connectionString="IndexDirectoryFolder"/>
 <add name="LocalSqlServer" connectionString="Server=ServerName\InstanceName;initial catalog=DatabaseName;User Id=Username;Password=Password;MultipleActiveResultSets=true;" />
 <add name="AxWebService" connectionString=
"EndPointConfigurationName=AX;UserName=UserName;Password=Password;Domain=Domain;"/>
 <add name="NavisionStandardService" connectionString="NavisionServiceUrl"/>
</connectionStrings>

Step 9: Delete the following lines:

<add name="AxWebService" connectionString=
"EndPointConfigurationName=AX;UserName=UserName;Password=Password;Domain=Domain;"/>
<add name="NavisionStandardService" connectionString="NavisionServiceUrl"/>

Step 10: Replace the following values:

#INDEXDIRECTORYFOLDER#: The path to the folder where the index files are stored.
#SERVERNAME\INSTANCENAME#: Database server name or IP address of the SQL database server and optionally the SQL server instance name.
#DATABASENAME#: Name of the SQL database used in 'Setup the SQL Database'.
#USERNAME#: Database username used in 'Setup the SQL Database'.
#PASSWORD#: Password of the database user.