Question

I’ve ran into a weird issue when ever I deploy to my winhost account and try to login using membership provider it works fine locally but once it’s on the intarnets it breaks.

Configuration Error

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file require to
service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your 
configuration file appropriately. 

Parser Error Message: The connection name 'LocalSqlServer' was not found in the
applications configuration or the connection string is empty.

Source Error: 
Source File: machine.config Line: 148

It is as if I have referenced ‘LocalSqlServer’ somewhere in my app.config but I haven’t here is my providers:

  <membership defaultProvider="SqlProvider">
  <providers>
    <clear/>
    <add name="SqlProvider" 
         connectionStringName="winhost" 
         enablePasswordRetrieval="false"
         enablePasswordReset="true" 
         requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
         passwordFormat="Hashed" 
         applicationName="TestAdmin" 
         minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
         minRequiredPasswordLength="2" 
         type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" />
  </providers>
</membership>

<authentication mode="Forms"/>
<roleManager enabled="true">
  <providers>
    <clear/>
    <add name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" 
         type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" 
         connectionStringName="winhost" 
         applicationName="TestAdmin"/>
  </providers>
</roleManager>

any ideas or help is appreciated!

Josh

Answer 1

Look at the bottom of your error message. It is not talking about app.config; rather machine.config.

<root drive>:\<windows>\Microsoft.NET\Framework\<version>\config\machine.config

This is what it looks like in mine:

    <roleManager>
        <providers>
            <add name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" applicationName="/" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
            <add name="AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider" applicationName="/" type="System.Web.Security.WindowsTokenRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
        </providers>
    </roleManager>