Question

I am having problems using UmbracoMembershipProvider into another site.

We have a project that contains an Umbraco website and a ASP.NET MVC 3 website for the main application.

We need to use the UmbracoMembershipProvider in the MVC application because we want to use the same admins in both Umbraco and our custom application.

So we have http://website.com (Umbraco) and http://website.com/app (Custom ASP.NET MVC 3)

I added this in our MVC app web.config:

<add name="UmbracoMembershipProvider" 
       type="umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoMembershipProvider, umbraco.providers" 
       enablePasswordRetrieval="false" 
       enablePasswordReset="false" 
       requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
       defaultMemberTypeAlias="Another Type" 
       passwordFormat="Hashed" />

<add name="UsersMembershipProvider" 
       type="umbraco.providers.UsersMembershipProvider, umbraco.providers" 
       enablePasswordRetrieval="false" 
       enablePasswordReset="false" 
       requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" 
       passwordFormat="Hashed"  />

I also added this in the appSettings:

<add key="umbracoDbDSN" value="connectionString" />

I have the same configuration in the Umbraco web.config

When I call the following method:

Membership.Providers["UsersMembershipProvider"].ValidateUser(username, password)

My IIS crashes and I get a StackOverflowException.

Did anyone have been able to connect an external application to the UmbracoMembershipService?

Answer 1

Ok, I figured it out.

In my MVC website, I add to create config folder and copy the umbracoSettings.config file in it.

So my folder tree looks like this:

• MVCApp
  • config/umbracoSettings.config
• Umbraco
  • config/umbracoSettings.config

I don’t understand why I was having a stackoverflowexception, but this seems to solve my issue.