I am having a problem with asp.net's membership. My local machine processes a login event perfectly; it checks to see if the user is in a particular role, and then sends them to the appropriate page. I have uploaded it to my hosted site and it gives me an 'object reference not set' error. I will post the error below. Please tell me what you think. First, here is the page's code they refer to: Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load Dim uInRole As String = Membership.GetUser.ToString If Roles.IsUserInRole(uInRole, "Client") = True Then Response.Redirect("Client/Home.aspx", True) ElseIf Roles.IsUserInRole(uInRole, "Parent") = True Then Response.Redirect("Parent/ParentSwitchbo<WBR>ard.aspx",<WBR> True) ElseIf Roles.IsUserInRole(uInRole, "Darnell") = True Then Response.Redirect("Darnell/Switchboard.a<WBR>spx", True) ElseIf Roles.IsUserInRole(uInRole, "ClientAndParent") = True Then Response.Redirect("ClientAndParent/Clien<WBR>tAndParent<WBR>Switchboar<WBR>d.aspx", True) End If End Sub And here is the error from the hosted server: Server Error in '/' Application. ----------------------------------------<WBR>----------<WBR>----------<WBR>----------<WBR>----------<WBR> Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Source Error: Line 7: Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load Line 8: Line 9: Dim uInRole As String = Membership.GetUser.ToString Line 10: If Roles.IsUserInRole(uInRole, "Client") = True Then Line 11: Response.Redirect("Client/Home.aspx", True) Source File: E:\web\dstroketen1\htdocs\Default.aspx.v<WBR>b Line: 9 Stack Trace: [NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.] _Default.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) in E:\web\dstroketen1\htdocs\Default.aspx.v<WBR>b:9 System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +99 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +47 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Bo<WBR>olean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1061 Post Edited By Moderator (mjp) : 3/26/2007 5:50:07 PM GMT
If the page is running for an anonymous user, then the current username is actually the empty string. Which is why you are getting back a null reference at Membership.GetUser.ToString. i.e Membership.GetUser.ToString is a null See: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/40w5063z.aspx Vikram DiscountASP.NET www.DiscountASP.NET
That may have had something to do with it. I did fix it though by enabling 'roles' in the 'roles management' element. Thanks for your reply.
