My website runs OK when the connection strings are unencrypted both on my local web server and when uploaded to discountasp. When I encrypt the connection strings using aspnet_regiis the site works locally but stops working when I upload the web.config to discountasp. The commands I've tried to encrypt the stings are: aspnet_regiis -pe "connectionStrings" -app "/ims" as well as: aspnet_regiis -pef "connectionStrings" c:\code\ims In both cases, the web.config works locally but not on the discountasp server. Would appreciate if anyone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks, Gautam More Information ============= I know now that the encryption process uses the machine key which is obviously different across machines. So now I have generated a machine key for the server using the IIS manager. Now I'm stuck at a new place: 1. Can I get the deployment server's machine key to my local machine so I can run aspnet_regiis? 2. Alternately, is it possible to get secure shell access to the discountasp.net server so I can run the encryption there? Thanks, Gautam Post Edited (gautams) : 11/15/2008 3:21:54 PM GMT
