Installing Vault with hosted service

[tonypujals]

Hello,

Is there ANY POSSIBLE way that Vault can be installed to connect to an existing database and user to create the tables it needs?

My hosting provider is Server Intellect (http://www.serverintellect.com) and I have a virtual private server account, which provides me with full administrative control, except that I'm only allowed two SQL Server databases. These databases (and database users) must be created using their administrative control panel.

Of course, once the database is created, it can be accessed normally, eg:
data source=66.228.123.140,2433;User ID=USERNAME; Password=PASSWORD;initial catalog=DATABASENAME

Unfortunately installing SQL Server or even SQL Server 2005 Express on the vps server is not a viable option for me. The system is Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6.0 with .NET 2.0/3.0, but my account is only provisioned with 384 MB, and despite the docs on the minimum RAM requirement (192 MB), the installation for express fails saying the minimum hardware requirment hasn't been met. Therefore, I need to use the SQL Server 2005 databases located on another machine created via the hosting provider admin tool.

I would really, REALLY like to use Vault -- any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Tony

[lbauer]

We don't support installing Vault without the installer. However some users have been able to install in a hosted environment by creating the database on a local machine then attaching or restoring it to the host's SQL Server. Is that a possibility?

If so, email support at sourcegear.com ATTN Linda and I'll send you some instructions that a user provided us for installing in a hosted environment.