{"id":11941,"date":"2015-07-18T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T11:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/?p=11941"},"modified":"2019-11-12T08:55:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T08:55:31","slug":"invalid-input-cannot-connect-to-the-server-you-may-have-specified-as-incorrect-server-name-or-server-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2015\/07\/18\/invalid-input-cannot-connect-to-the-server-you-may-have-specified-as-incorrect-server-name-or-server-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Invalid Input. Cannot connect to the server. You may have specified as incorrect Server name or Server Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The common error that the users face while setting up database setup for Portal is for the server name or Port number that the user specifies as shown in the below error.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"><b>New stuff:&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2015\/07\/16\/different-methods-to-default-different-unit-of-measure-on-purchase-order-entry-in-sage-300-erp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Different methods to Default different Unit of Measure on Purchase Order Entry in Sage 300 ERP<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11942\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/11.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"750\" height=\"849\"><\/a><br \/>\nMost of the time, user inputs the server name correctly, but not the server port in the configure portal screen which is the cause of the above error.<br \/>\nTo resolve the error, you need to check the SQL server port number in the SQL Configuration manager screen. The port number should match in the Configure Portal screen and in the SQL Configuration manager for the TCPIP properties as shown in the below screen shot.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/22.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11952\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/22.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"750\" height=\"557\"><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/41.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11953\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/41.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"751\" height=\"626\"><\/a><br \/>\nThis way using above simple and easy steps, one can save the configuration in the database setup Configuration PORTAL screen.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #993300\">Also Read:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n1. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2014\/04\/19\/sage-300-erp-portals-one-stop-shop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sage 300 ERP Portals \u2013 One Stop Shop<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n2. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2013\/02\/27\/http-error-500-0-internal-server-error-while-configuring-iis-for-sage-300-portal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cHTTP Error 500.0 Internal Server Error\u201d while Configuring IIS for Sage 300 Portal<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n3. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2014\/05\/30\/call-net-web-service-through-ocx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CALL .NET WEB SERVICE THROUGH OCX<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n4. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2012\/04\/18\/adding-vb-application-to-sage-accpac-portal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adding VB Application to Sage Accpac Portal<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n5. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2012\/05\/07\/greytrix-customer-portal-for-sage-300-erp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greytrix Customer Portal for Sage 300 ERP<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The common error that the users face while setting up database setup for Portal is for the server name or Port number that the user specifies as shown in the below error. New stuff:&nbsp;Different methods to Default different Unit of Measure on Purchase Order Entry in Sage 300 ERP Most of the time, user inputs\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2015\/07\/18\/invalid-input-cannot-connect-to-the-server-you-may-have-specified-as-incorrect-server-name-or-server-port\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84,420,1301,1302,2389],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-accpac","tag-accpac-error","tag-cannot-connect-to-the-server","tag-incorrect-server-name","tag-incorrect-server-port","tag-sage-300-error"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Invalid Input. 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