Question

How do you setup an asp.net sql membership role/membership provider on a production machine? I’m trying to setup BlogEngine.NET and all the documentation says to use the ASP.NET Website Administration tool from Visual Studio but that isn’t available on a production machine. Am I the first BlogEngine user to use it on a non-development box?

The SQL server is completely blocked off from everything but the production box, I do have SQL Management Studio on there though.

EDIT: I mean, how do you add new users/roles, not how do you create the tables. I’ve already ran aspnet_regsql to create the schema.

EDIT2: MyWSAT doesn’t work because it requires an initial user in the database as well. I need an application that will allow me to create new users in the membership database without any authentication, just a connection string.

Answer 1

I solved this problem by setting up a default super user at application start up.

By adding this to gobal.asax

      void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)      {         // Code that runs on application startup          // check that the minimal security settings are created         Security.SetupSecurity();     }  

Then in the security class:

  using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;  ///  /// Creates minimum roles and user for application access. ///  public class Security {     // application roles     public static string[] applicationRoles =          { 'Roles1', 'Roles2', 'Roles3', 'Roles4', 'Roles5' };     // super user     private static string superUser = 'super';     // default password, should be changed on first connection     private static string superUserPassword = 'default';      private Security()     {         //         // TODO: Add constructor logic here         //     }      ///      /// Creates minimal membership environment.     ///      public static void SetupSecurity()     {         SetupRoles();         SetupSuperuser();     }      ///      /// Checks roles, creates missing.     ///      public static void SetupRoles()     {         // create roles         for (int i = 0; i      /// Checks if superuser account is created.     /// Creates the account and assigns it to all roles.     ///      public static void SetupSuperuser()     {         // create super user         MembershipUser user = Membership.GetUser(superUser);         if (user == null)             Membership.CreateUser(superUser, superUserPassword, '[e-mail]');          // assign superuser to roles         for (int i = 0; i  

Once you have a default user, you can use AspNetWSAT or other.