How do I add a machine key to the machine.config file? Do I do it at server level in IIS or at website/application level for each site? Does the validation and decryption keys have to be the same across both web servers or are they different? Should they be different for each machine.config version of.net? I working on a MVC 4 site which has uses Authentication. The site requires that I specify the Machine Key values. I did this via the IIS interface having deselected the 'automatically generate at r.
May 20, 2015 How To Generate Machine Key In IIS Complete steps is described in this video regarding How To Generate Machine Key In IIS If you got any clarification on this, please write it on Comment section.
We recommend that deployed versions of Orchard are configured with a fixed machine key rather than the default setting, which is to automatically generate the key at runtime. This default setting can cause the key to change unexpectedly, which can cause validation errors.
If you have access to the IIS management console for the server where Orchard is installed, it is the easiest way to set-up a machine key.
Start the management console and then select the web site. Open the machine key configuration:
The machine key control panel has the following settings:
Uncheck 'Automatically generate at runtime' for both the validation key and the decryption key.
Click 'Generate Keys' under 'Actions' on the right side of the panel.
Click 'Apply'.
If you do not have access to the IIS management console, it is still possible to set-up a machine key for an Orchard application.
/windows-7-ultimate-product-key-generators.html. To do so, open the web.config file that is at the root of the Orchard web site. The machine key settings can be found or created under configuration/system.web:
To create the keys that go into the placeholders above, you can use one of the available online generators, such as:
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You have some options to generate a MachineKey:
- You can build the sample application from the following article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312906
- You can search in Bing for 'MachineKey generator' and use an online service. Honestly I wouldn't rely on third party online services for generating MachineKey because I wouldn't have any control over them and I couldn't make sure that if they wouldn't log my IP address and MachineKey in a database to use that later - yes, I know it sounds like 'paranoia' :)
There is one another way which I have learned from one of my customers today. It was over there waiting in IIS user interface but I never gave it a try before (shame on me). You can use IIS 7.5 user interface to generate the MachineKey section and save it in the web.config of your application / root web.config file. Steps are quite easy:
1) Open IIS manager.
2) If you need to generate and save the MachineKey for all your applications select the server name in the left pane, in that case you will be modifying the root web.config file (which is placed in the .NET framework folder). If your intention is to create MachineKey for a specific web site/application then select the web site / application from the left pane. In that case you will be modifying the web.config file of your application.
3) Double click the Machine Key icon in ASP.NET settings in the middle pane:
4) MachineKey section will be read from your configuration file and be shown in the UI. If you did not configure a specific MachineKey and it is generated automatically you will see the following options:
5) Now you can click Generate Keys on the right pane to generate random MachineKeys. When you click Apply, all settings will be saved in the web.config file.
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