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8/6/2009 4:50 AM
 
aamir saif

Joined: 10/27/2006
Posts: 41

Hi,

I want to encrypt my web.config of my dnn website. Especially the server connection string and other customer parameters. How can do it in Dotnetnuke architecture?

thanks
 
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8/7/2009 2:37 AM
 
Shawn Mehaffie

Joined: 1/4/2003
Posts: 2313

You would do this just like you would any other .Net projects web.config.  See the following post by Scott Gutherie about this very issue.

Encrypting Web.Config Values in ASP.NET 2.0

Of course, before you do anything like this you want to make a backup of any files that you update.  Otherwise, you might really mess things up and take the whole site down.  Even on a dev box I'd recommend making a backup, becuase who want to have to rebuild a site when it could have been avoided.
 
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8/7/2009 11:25 AM
 
cathal connolly


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actually you can't just do it as standard asp.net 2.0, as our providers extract aspects of the connection string. You would need to make an alternative version of the dataprovider that was aware of the encryption to ensure it could read and decrypt. Alternatively there are a few commercial modules that do this, I have not had an opportunity to evaluate any of them though.

Cathal

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8/7/2009 11:42 AM
 
Jeremy Farrance


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Joined: 9/21/2005
Posts: 136

I have successfully encrypted the main database access in a DNN web.config as high as 4.9.4 using the command line details outlined in this article
http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/demos/printPage.aspx?path=/articles/021506-1.aspx 

Here are my two working command lines (note that I added the location of aspnet_regiis.exe to my path).  Note that you must do both connectionStrings and appSettings (if still used).  Please do read the linked article thoroughly, it is very well written and explains everything really well.

C:\>aspnet_regiis.exe -pef "connectionStrings" "D:\Webspace\domainname.com\web" -prov "DataProtectionConfigurationProvider"
Encrypting configuration section...
Succeeded!

C:\>aspnet_regiis.exe -pef "appSettings" "D:\Webspace\domainname.com\web" -prov "DataProtectionConfigurationProvider"
Encrypting configuration section...
Succeeded!

- Accuraty / Jeremy
 
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8/9/2009 11:49 PM
 
Shawn Mehaffie

Joined: 1/4/2003
Posts: 2313

cathal connolly wrote

actually you can't just do it as standard asp.net 2.0, as our providers extract aspects of the connection string. You would need to make an alternative version of the dataprovider that was aware of the encryption to ensure it could read and decrypt. Alternatively there are a few commercial modules that do this, I have not had an opportunity to evaluate any of them though.

Cathal

So what about how we are extracting the information in our data provider makes it so it does not work with how you would do this with a standard asp.net 2.0 appliction?  I was alwasy under the impression that as long as you used the build in fucntions to read the data from the web.config that it would read/decrpty the data correctly.  I can honestly say that I have not tried it, so now my interested is peaked and I might have to play with this feature some.
 
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