I am trying to deploy an Identity Server 4 app to IIS, and get the error "An error occurred while starting the application. UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\Test\tempkey.rsa' is denied." What am I doing wrong?

Question

User-858993849 posted

I can get a core 2 app working on my production server. but then trying to add the IdentityServer4 to it fails with the below error even though it runs flawlessly on my development server.

I get the following error.

An error occurred while starting the application.

UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\Test\tempkey.rsa' is denied.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

User475983607 posted

Stop using AddDeveloperSigningCredential or AddSigningCredential in the startup.  

From the Identity Server docs.

The AddDeveloperSigningCredential extension creates temporary key material for signing tokens. Again this might be useful to get started, but needs to be replaced by some persistent key material for production scenarios. See the cryptography docs for more information.

Reference docs.

http://docs.identityserver.io/en/release/quickstarts/0_overview.html

http://docs.identityserver.io/en/release/topics/crypto.html

Answer 2

User-858993849 posted

I finally figured that out. Thanks though!