Himmat Singh Dulawat (3x Sitecore MVP)

While Installing the Sitecore 10.3 on my local machine (Windows 11), I encountered with the following error: The root cause of the issue is that a connection to the SqlServer is established without the "TrustServerCertificate" parameter. Solution: Go to the xconnect-xp0.json  in your Sitecore download setup files, open it in any editor tool, and search the following parameters: CreateShardApplicationDatabaseServerLoginInvokeSqlCmd CreateShardManagerApplicationDatabaseUserInvokeSqlCmd CreateShard0ApplicationDatabaseUserInvokeSqlCmd CreateShard1ApplicationDatabaseUserInvokeSqlCmd Add the "TrustServerCertificate": true , to all parameters. For example: Reference:  https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003015 Happy Sitecoreing  😊

Instead of redirecting to the "Item Not Found" page, Sitecore may generate the following error messages when it receives a request containing Illegal characters in the path: Solution: I saw a similar issue and it could depend on the "requestPathInvalidCharacters" settings in <httpRuntime> in Web.config . Go to the web.config and search for httpRuntime node. Check if the requestValidationMode is there, if it is not then add the attribute requestValidationMode="2.0"   Make sure validateRequest attribute in the page node is set to false. <pages validateRequest="false"> If you want to add these characters to the path, add the requestPathInvalidCharacters attribute to the httpRuntime node. <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.8" ...... requestPathInvalidCharacters="&lt;,&gt;,*,%,&amp;,:,\,?"/> Reference: