nopCommerce 3.70 keep throwing me out of Admin Panel

We are using nopCommerce 3.70, due to our payment gateway (PAyGate), not yet supporting the newer versions. However, after a clean instal, I can log into my store without a problem. And I can get into the Admin Panel, but whenever I try and change or update anything (like chaning my store name) I get kicket out of the Admin Panel, and cannot any changes I tried to make is lost.

Any suggestions?

Do you have machine name specified in web.config as described here?

Thanks Andrei, I will give it a shot. Now that you mention is, I did notice a Warning about a missing machine key in the Admin Panel.

Hi Andrei,

I tried to add add the machine key I generated with the link below:

http://www.allkeysgenerator.com/Random/ASP-Net-MachineKey-Generator.aspx

... but I could not make it work. Then I though about it for a while, and came to the following conclusion:


1)   I use Windows 7, SQL Server Express 2008, IIS 7, ASP.Net 4.0, ASP .Net Framework version 4.5.1 - on a localhost setup on my PC to basically develop the store. The idea is to then upload the changes (resore the db on the live site) as I go along.

2)   My hosting company, Afrihost (www.afrihost.com)runs my live site (www.ort-online.co.za) on a Windows 2012 R2 Standard Server, SQL Server 2014, IIS 8, ASP.net 4.5 (MVC 5.0), .NET Framework version 4.6.1. This runs of a Shared Hosting Server (basically a Web Farm).


So I contacted Afrihost support and requested the generate me a machine key for my site, as I don't have direct access to IIS 8 on the live server. The reply I got was as follows, and I quote:

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Please refer the machine key :

Validation key

12194B577DC8EDEB39748B915A15FB16C8DB1826BFAD80B51ED931A6E266AE520DAC868F868311E255CD50A63A81C12A12459785B94A094EDD48F5775A69DB5D,IsolateApps

Decryption key

D5BB33259FF67450B1793F78F5257D362BA44D9150BB2916,IsolateApps


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So I took what they sent to me, and inserted the detais into the web.config file of the root folder of the nopCommerce (v 3.70) site. The syntax I used is as follows:

----------------- I entreded the code below this line ------------------------------>
<httpRuntime targetFramework="4.5.1" enableVersionHeader="false" />
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>

----------------- I entreded the following line for the machineKey ----------------->
<machineKey decryption="AES" decryptionKey="D5BB33259FF67450B1793F78F5257D362BA44D9150BB2916,IsolateApps" validationKey="12194B577DC8EDEB39748B915A15FB16C8DB1826BFAD80B51ED931A6E266AE520DAC868F868311E255CD50A63A81C12A12459785B94A094EDD48F5775A69DB5D,IsolateApps" />
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------>


After all that I get the following error when I try to log into the nopCommerce Admin Panel:

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Server Error in '/' Application.

Configuration Error

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: Decryption key specified has invalid hex characters.

Source Error:


An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Source File: E:\www\ortonwet\ort-online.co.za\wwwroot\web.config    Line: 60

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.6.1087.0


=======================================================================================================>


So what am I doing wrong. Excuse my ignorance, but I'm new to all this machineKey stuff.



Just another question: My site seems to load VERY long (15 - 30 seconds) for each page I try to access. And here I mean just ordinary browsing the site from a customer point of view. Does this have to do with the fact that our shared hosting package has limited server resources, or is it something I can improve on via the nopCommerce setup in the admin panel or code?

If you want to see what I mean about the slow performance, browse to www.ort-online.co.za


Thanks.
Jaco Ferreira

I solved the error I was getting.

The machine key I entered below,

<machineKey decryption="AES" decryptionKey="D5BB33259FF67450B1793F78F5257D362BA44D9150BB2916,IsolateApps" validationKey="12194B577DC8EDEB39748B915A15FB16C8DB1826BFAD80B51ED931A6E266AE520DAC868F868311E255CD50A63A81C12A12459785B94A094EDD48F5775A69DB5D,IsolateApps" />

was changed to,

<machineKey decryptionKey="D5BB33259FF67450B1793F78F5257D362BA44D9150BB2916"    validationKey="12194B577DC8EDEB39748B915A15FB16C8DB1826BFAD80B51ED931A6E266AE520DAC868F868311E255CD50A63A81C12A12459785B94A094EDD48F5775A69DB5D" />


The test [,IsolateApps] should not be in either the DecryptionKey or the ValidationKey. Please note, this setup works for me on a "web farm" environment, and may not work in other configurations.