AbleCommerce Shopping Cart Software

Guys,

My web host is moving our AbleCommerce site to another web server. The say the AC software is using a file called web.config as the application's configuration file and must be decrypted before they can move it. Can this be done in the admin area of the software?

Gio

Guys I could really use your help on this issue below.

Server error:

"Validation of viewstate MAC failed. If this application is hosted by a Web Farm or cluster, ensure that <machineKey> configuration specifies the same validationKey and validation algorithm. AutoGenerate cannot be used in a cluster."

Has anyone had this issue?

Gio

That does happen occasionally on a dev machine and re-starting the machine could fix it. For the live site, it is better to put a key in the web.config. That key is normally picked up from the server and if you move your site to another server or run it on a web farm, you will have trouble unless you use one you have set in the web.config file.
This post talks about some of the problems and how to add a machine key.
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=7121&hilit=machinekey
If you search for machinekey on the forums, there are also posts about getting that error if you have added <form> tags to the page since there is already a set of them generated automatically.
The web.config is not encrypted, but there are other configuration files in the App_Data folder that can cause a problem with a move. There are help topics at help.ablecommere.com that deal with moving a site.

Please read following topic
http://wiki.ablecommerce.com/index.php/ ... ed_problem

Gange,

mazhar - I attempted this resolution recommendations in the ASP.NET article but no luck.

jmestep - I recently added a constant contact signup form. Are you suggesting the forms tags from something like that could casuse issues?

Ideas anyone else?

Gio

Yes, they could cause that. Take it off the page and see if that helps.
Here is a site that had that problem and they had to recode it.
http://www.christmasdealz.com
I believe his forum name is combra, but I'm not sure.

jmestep - That was it! I removed the constant contact sign up code and now all is well. It was added to the left side bar layout snippet.

Now, I still need a newsletter sign up form on the left side of our site. Any work around suggestions?

Gio

You might be able to use the view source on the page for the link I gave you. It looks like his is inside an asp:panel. I just don't remember what he said his web person did to get it to work. He might have taken the contents from the <form> tag from CC, put that inside a conlib in the custom folder, then used that conlib in the left nav. Maybe you can pm him.

Guys,

Any other ideas on how to use form tags in your site without experiencing the issues I had in this thread?

Gio

May be it helps
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=8322