Question

I am trying to authenticate through WebSecurity class.

I have a form and when a user submits this is called:

@{
    if(IsPost) {
        var username = Request["username"];
        var password = Request["password"];

        WebSecurity.CreateAccount(username, password, false);

        WebSecurity.Login(username, password);

        Response.Redirect("Default.cshtml");
    }

}  

I already call:

WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection("Veidibok", "UserProfile", "UserId", "Email", true);

in my _appStart.cshtml file.

I get this error from the CreateAccount() call:

[MembershipCreateUserException: The Provider encountered an unknown
error.]
WebMatrix.WebData.SimpleMembershipProvider.CreateAccount(String
userName, String password, Boolean requireConfirmationToken) +1312
WebMatrix.WebData.WebSecurity.CreateAccount(String userName, String
password, Boolean requireConfirmationToken) +31
ASP._Page_Authentication_Register_cshtml.Execute() in
c:\Users\Notandi\Documents\My Web
Sites\VeidiBok\Authentication\Register.cshtml:6
System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy() +207
System.Web.WebPages.WebPage.ExecutePageHierarchy(IEnumerable`1
executors) +68 System.Web.WebPages.WebPage.ExecutePageHierarchy()
+156 System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy(WebPageContext
pageContext, TextWriter writer, WebPageRenderingBase startPage) +76
System.Web.WebPages.WebPageHttpHandler.ProcessRequestInternal(HttpContextBase
httpContext) +119

So anyone have any ideas? I’m really new at this, just trying out WebMatrix and .cshtml

Answer 1

Okay, this problem was a pain in my butt for the better part of today. I eventually had to check out the source code on Codeplex to get a better idea of what’s happening (http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/SourceControl/changeset/view/ae31d2579b9a#src%2fWebMatrix.WebData%2fSimpleMembershipProvider.cs)

It seems that the CreateAccount primarily creates account information in the membership table but before it does that the method will check for the presence of a user with the same userName in the User profile table specified in the Initialize statement WebSecurity.InitializeDatabaseConnection

You can either call the CreateUser before you call the CreateAccount method or call the convenience method CreateUserAndAccount.