Sharepoint2019 Manage Forms Based Authentication Users

Question

Hi Experts

i just configured Forms Based Authentication (FBA) with visigo solution( https://www.visigo.com/products/sharepoint-fba-pack/) in Sharepoint2019 an at the end i get the error in "Manage Forms Based Authentication Users"

"A Membership Provider has not been configured correctly. Check the web.config settings for this web application."

i recheck my web.config and nothing seems to be wrong

is there any solution o any help could resolve it?

by the way i do the same way in sharepoint2016 and its run without any problem.

Answer 1

Hi @niusha tahmasebi ,

Please check as follows:

1. Make sure the membership config in the web.config not changed(machine.config and SecurityTokenServiceApplication)
2. Please ensure the permissions for the web app pool user to the membership database not changed (whether have db-owner permissions to the database).
3. Check the name of the membership provider in the SharePoint Web Application settings, see if it is no longer matches the name of the membership provider in the web.config.

Please note If you don’t have access to the machine.config, or prefer not to edit it, you will have to make all of these changes to the following web.config files:

• SharePoint Central Administration
• SecurityTokenServiceApplication
• Every SharePoint web application you create that you would like to access via FBA

If the issue still exists, please follow articles below step by step:

https://blogs.visigo.com/chriscoulson/configuring-forms-based-authentication-in-sharepoint-2016-sharepoint-2019-part-1-creating-the-membership-database/

https://blogs.visigo.com/chriscoulson/configuring-forms-based-authentication-in-sharepoint-2016-sharepoint-2019-part-2-editing-the-web-config-files/

https://blogs.visigo.com/chriscoulson/configuring-forms-based-authentication-in-sharepoint-2016-sharepoint-2019-part-3-configuring-sharepoint/

https://blogs.visigo.com/chriscoulson/configuring-forms-based-authentication-in-sharepoint-2016-sharepoint-2019-part-4-adding-users-to-the-membership-database/

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