Sharepoint 2013 Workflow manager setup SQL serverinstance "Failure in connecting to SQL Server"

Hi Guys
im having issues with installing work flow manager.
this installation has gone ok, but when I'm in the configuration stage, and type in the SQL server instance, it returns with failure in connecting to SQL server.
this happens with SSL and with out SSL
I look forward to your responses
Kindest regards
Jack

Make sure that you have installed workflow manager updates on the server.
Follow these two steps first:
Add
WFSetup account (installer account) to SQL Server security group and give him
SysAdmin permission.
Add WFSetup to Workflow server in machine
administrator group, so user can login as worklfow administrator.
Enter database machine name and test it.
Adnan Amin MCT, SharePoint Architect | If you find this post useful kindly please mark it as an answer :)

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Hi
XantosX5 ,
Thank you for your posting!
According to your description, I try to reproduce your scenario in my SharePoint Server 2013 environment.
I create a lookup column in a list and create a workflow 2013 for the list. In the workflow, I add Send an email action. Then I display the lookup column in the body of the email as the below figure:
When I start the workflow, it works fine.
Have you installed
the workflow manager 1.0 cumulative update 1 ? It can be the point. If not, please install it.
Thank you for your understanding and support.
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Observation 1
1. I created 2 workflows that write "completed" to the workflow history
a. 1 workflow uses sp2010 workflow manager
b. 1 workflow uses sp2013 workflow manager
2. sp2010 workflow works fine; it will start either manually or automatically (when a new item is created ) without issue; "completed' is written to the log as expected. Good.
3. sp2013 does not start automatically (when a new item is created ); when trying to start manually I get error message "Something went wrong. To try again, reload the page and then start the workflow." Which I do, but still fails.
Bad.
4.On Workflows.aspx I can see the links to start the 2 workflows manually.
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Observation 2
In Sharepoint Designer 2013, when I goto Navigation -> Workflows and click on the 2010 workflow, I see a file listed under "Forms" that looks like this "sp2010 test workflow.xsn". By the way the name of the workflow happens
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I saved the workflow debug logs from Event Viewer but won't share that info here unless necessary, to avoid making things look more complicated than they have to be.
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Thanks and have a great weekend.
George

Hi George,
First of all, I'd like to clarify that workflow manager is dedicated for SharePoint 2013 workflow platform. SharePoint 2010 workflow is integrated in SharePoint server, while 2013 workflow is based on a new platform named workflow manager server.
In SharePoint 2013 designer, 2010 workflow has forms while 2013 workflow doesn't have forms.
For this issue, I suspect there is something incorrect with workflow manager. From the error message "Something went wrong. To try again, reload the page and then start the workflow", please flush the DNS cache via executing
IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS, and restart workflow manager related services such as below, then recreate 2013 workflow to test the issue:
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http://blog.houratious.com/2014/05/sharepoint-2013-workflow-something-went.html
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Hi James,
In my test per your description, I cannot reproduce the issue, however, I attached the screenshot of my test for your reference, let me know if there is misunderstanding.
Please capture the screenshot of your workflow process design so I can try to reproduce or find out if there is action that may cause the issue.
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http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vincent_runge/archive/2014/01/07/troubleshooting-actions-for-sharepoint-2013-workflows.aspx
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RequireReadOnly"],"Cache-Control":["max-age=0, private"],"Date":["Mon, 10 Mar 2014 01:31:42 GMT"],"Server":["Microsoft-IIS\/8.0"],"WWW-Authenticate":["NTLM"],"X-AspNet-Version":["4.0.30319"],"X-Powered-By":["ASP.NET"]}
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user who started the workflow, unlike 2010 which used System Account).
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I am stumped. I've spent many hours searching for a reason for this. There are about 200 people in the two AD groups so I really don't want to have to add them all individually - especially when these groups are managed in AD for a whole bunch of other reasons
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Hi Lars,
I'm afraid not so far but we are trying a few things today so I will post back with results.
First thing we are doing is making the AD Group universal because one of our (external provider) gurus remembers seeing something about that. He also sent me a link to a post where they were talking about earlier
versions but having similar issues and their solution was to make sure the app pool account has sufficient permissions in AD::
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/27a547da-5cc0-49d7-8056-6eb40b4c3242/failed-to-start-workflow-access-is-denied-exception-from-hresult-0x80070005-eaccessdenied
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Mark
(sorry about formatting - using my phone....)
Mark

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   "type":"Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ResourceNotFoundException","stacktrace":" at
   Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.GetObjectFromPathRoot(Boolean mainRequestPath, EdmParserNode node, Boolean resourceEndpoint, MethodInformation& methodInfo)\u000d\u000a at
   Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.GetObjectFromPath(Boolean mainRequestPath, String path, String pathForErrorMessage)\u000d\u000a at
   Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.Process()\u000d\u000a at
   Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestRequestProcessor.ProcessRequest()\u000d\u000a at
   Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Rest.RestService.ProcessQuery(Stream inputStream, IList`1 pendingDisposableContainer)"}}
   } {"Transfer-Encoding":["chunked"],"X-SharePointHealthScore":["0"],"SPClientServiceRequestDuration":["46"]
   ,"SPRequestGuid":["624f66f8-a70c-81db-bf0d-c042443f5435"],"request-id":["624f66f8-a70c-81db-bf0d-c042443f5435"],
   "X-FRAME-OPTIONS":["SAMEORIGIN"],"MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices":["15.0.0.4569"],"X-Content-Type-Options":["nosniff"],
   "X-MS-InvokeApp":["1; RequireReadOnly"],"Cache-Control":["max-age=0, private"],"Date":["Mon, 06 Apr 2015 22:17:23 GMT"],
   "Server":["Microsoft-IIS\/8.0"],"X-AspNet-Version":["4.0.30319"],"X-Powered-By":["ASP.NET"]} at
   Microsoft.Activities.Hosting.Runtime.Subroutine.SubroutineChild.Execute(CodeActivityContext context) at
    System.Activities.CodeActivity.InternalExecute(ActivityInstance instance, ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager) at
    System.Activities.Runtime.ActivityExecutor.ExecuteActivityWorkItem.ExecuteBody(ActivityExecutor executor, BookmarkManager bookmarkManager, Location resultLocation)
I was not able to find any answer anywhere, so my solution was:
1. Simply upgrade SharePoint Server 2013 to the latest version which in turn updates Microsoft.Activities.Proxy.dll
2. Clear the SharePoint Designer cache
Workflow Error - Sharepoint Designer cannot display the item
   http://community.office365.com/en-us/f/154/t/74327.aspx
I hope this is helpful to somebody
Thanks

Hi,
I doubt its not possible.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17925555/windows-workflow-4-appfabrix-1-1-suspended-workflow-will-not-resume
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/fd85c5f9-36dd-4be5-872f-9ba73b1eb0b8/appfabric-11-for-windows-server-versus-workflow-manager-10?forum=wfprerelease
http://seroter.wordpress.com/2012/11/02/interview-series-four-questions-with-jrgen-willis/
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