Question

Ok, I’ve published a site using forms authentication. It works on my staging server. it does not work on the production server. The only thing different is sql is on a different machine for production.

The site does work, showing data from sql, but when I use the login link on the site, it brings up the login form, I login, it redirects to the main page, where it still says “login” instead of “logout”.

I’ve tried aspnet_regsql to uninstall / install forms authentication for the server. I’ve restarted the www service. Here’s a portion of my web.config

    <membership>
  <providers>
    <remove name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"/>
    <add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" 
         type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" 
         connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer" 
         enablePasswordRetrieval="true" 
         enablePasswordReset="true" 
         requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true" 
         applicationName="/TriState" 
         requiresUniqueEmail="true" 
         minRequiredPasswordLength="4" 
         minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" 
         passwordFormat="Clear" 
         maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" 
         passwordAttemptWindow="10" 
         passwordStrengthRegularExpression="" />
  </providers>
</membership>

Answer 1

How are you creating the roles and users in the production environment? Do you use a back up of the development database? In that case pay attention to the aspnet_Applications table. Make sure that the name of the application in the development and the production environment are the same. If not, try to edit the table by hand.