"Sam Samson" <nospamsam@nospam.com.au> wrote in message
news:ece03a78e8af8c9d97f8b62bee6@news.microsoft.com...
> greetings all, (again blasted newsreader killed my initial epic, email
> post numero 2)
>
> I have a dev box(XP) that I am developing an ASP.NET 2.0 application .. am
> trying to use membership features .. have set up my local box secured a
> directory dropped in an ASP:LOGIN web control added some users set all the
> right properties and I have a nicely login secured web app that runs just
> dandy on my dev box.
>
> However when I try to deploy to my 2003 server all looks fine but I cannot
> log in "Your login attempt was not successful. Please try again."
>
> A blog search has people talking about naming the application .. so using
> the IIS management snap-in I have given my web site an application name
> ("grizzly").. the blogs say this should be reflected in the ASPNETDB,
> aspnet_applications, applicationName .. however this applicationName
> remains "/" instead of "grizzly" which is what I named the web
> application. And to make things even more confusing some blogs say this is
> the desirable behaviour.
>
> I am now lost as what to do next. I tried to add users and set security on
> my directory on the 2003 machine but can't find an equivalent tool like
> the one under VS2005 website asp.net configuration .. and dont know if
> this is even the way to do it.
>
> The 2003 server windows event logs are full of "Membership credential
> failures" but the fact that I dont get a screen full of stacktrace makes
> me think it can at least see the ASPDBNET database nestled away in the
> App_data directory
>
> Now I'm quite stuck and looking for a push in the right direction ... it
> certainly looks like I should be able to create my site on my dev box and
> simply publish it to the 2003 server
>
> Is there a "complete and utter idiots guide" to setting up this kind of
> website publishing
>
> ---------------------------------------------
> [Sam Samson] - There is no greater folly than fixed price quoting.
>
>

> Hello Howard,
>
> I tried adding this by copying this from machine.config to web.config
> which
> has applicationName="/" field in it
> <membership>
> <providers>
> <add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
> type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider,
> System.Web,
> Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
> connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer"
> enablePasswordRetrieval="false"
> enablePasswordReset="true"
> requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true"
> applicationName="/"
> requiresUniqueEmail="false"
> passwordFormat="Hashed"
> maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5"
> minRequiredPasswordLength="7"
> minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
> passwordAttemptWindow="10"
> passwordStrengthRegularExpression="" />
> </providers>
> </membership>
> knowing that sometimes you can overide whats in the config files with
> whats in the web.config ... again on my Dev box it all works fine but
> on 2003 it spits back
>
> Parser Error Message: The entry 'AspNetSqlMembershipProvider' has
> already been added.
>
> Source Error:
>
> Line 24: <membership>
> Line 25: <providers>
> Line 26: <add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
> Line 27: type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider,
> System.Web,
> Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"
> Line 28: connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer"
> so I'm guessing it doesnt overide like I thought ...
> And I'm thinking if I change the applicationName in machine.config
> then I
> will only ever be able to have the one web app ... also the website
> application
> name in the IIS managment snap in (properties) is blank, the
> application
> name in ASPNETDB is / and the current Appname in the 2003
> machine.config
> providers section is "/" .. I thought this was ok ..
> Still lost :-(
>
>> I believe you can specify 'ApplicationName' in web.config in the
>> Providers <add> element. Did you try that?
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Howard Hoffman
>>

> I believe you can specify 'ApplicationName' in web.config in the
> Providers <add> element. Did you try that?
>
> HTH,
>
> Howard Hoffman
>