ASPNET_REGIIS Encryption on shared hosting

Question

I've Encrypted connectionString section in web.config using ASPNET_REGIIS successfully. however i've done this on my local machine.

When I tried to publish website on a shared hosting server I received a configuration file error.

Is there any way I could Encrypt on a shared hosting server using ASPNET_REGIIS without access to the physical server machine?

Thanks.

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Osher Levy Osher Levy · Accepted Answer · 2017-02-28T14:54:05

I found a solution, Might not be the best but I feel okay with it..

I encrypted web.Config once, using the first function. I decrypt it on each call.

    public static void EncryptConnString()
{
    Configuration config = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~");
    ConfigurationSection section = config.GetSection("connectionStrings");

    if (!section.SectionInformation.IsProtected)
    {
        section.SectionInformation.ProtectSection("RsaProtectedConfigurationProvider");
        config.Save();
    }
}

public static MySqlConnection DecryptConnString()
{
    MySqlConnection conn = new MySqlConnection();
    Configuration config = WebConfigurationManager.OpenWebConfiguration("~");
    ConfigurationSection section = config.GetSection("connectionStrings");
    if (section.SectionInformation.IsProtected)
    {
        section.SectionInformation.UnprotectSection();
        conn = new MySqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["DatabaseName"].ConnectionString);
        return conn;
    }
    else
        return null;
}

(using MySql)

ASPNET_REGIIS Encryption on shared hosting

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