GoDaddy Shared Hosting - Sitefinity - On Premise – Configurations & Setup

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Posted by Community Admin on 24-Sep-2015 00:00

My Sitefinity website is deployed using GoDaddy's shared hosting which uses a web farm. I'm getting a "Validation of viewstate MAC failed" error (see below). It looks like the cure is to add a machinekey entry into the web.config file, but when I do this I get an internal server error 500. I've got to believe Sitefinity runs in GoDaddy's shared hosting environment. Any suggestions on how to correct this 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.

See go.microsoft.com/.../ for more information.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Web.HttpException: 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.

See go.microsoft.com/.../ for more information.

Source Error:

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Source File: c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\5a29e4d4\3e5d307b\App_Web_39c2063d-5e94-6235-ab28-ff0000bff8e4_81t443621a48_identitycontrol.aspx.d63928b6.r76ah7y6.0.cs    Line: 0

Stack Trace:

[ViewStateException: Invalid viewstate.
        Client IP: 99.177.189.144
        Port: 57681
        Referer: https://www.identitycontrol.com/identity-theft/identity-theft-causes
        Path: /identity-theft/identity-theft-causes
        User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko
        ViewState: /wEPDwUKLTE1NTc5Nzg3MGQYAQUeX19Db250cm9sc1JlcXVpcmVQb3N0QmFja0tleV9fFgEFOGN0bDAwJGNwaEJyZWFkY3J1bWJzJFQ0NDM2MjFBNDAwNyRjdGwwMCRjdGwwMCRCcmVhZGNydW1iehvDAk9ak7SIxcwVt1QQBjE106l3J7xhiO9OSbG3RMY=]

[HttpException (0x80004005): 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.

See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=314055 for more information.]
   System.Web.UI.ViewStateException.ThrowError(Exception inner, String persistedState, String errorPageMessage, Boolean macValidationError) +116
   System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter.Deserialize(String inputString, Purpose purpose) +432
   System.Web.UI.ObjectStateFormatter.System.Web.UI.IStateFormatter2.Deserialize(String serializedState, Purpose purpose) +8
   System.Web.UI.Util.DeserializeWithAssert(IStateFormatter2 formatter, String serializedState, Purpose purpose) +40
   System.Web.UI.HiddenFieldPageStatePersister.Load() +248
   System.Web.UI.Page.LoadPageStateFromPersistenceMedium() +272
   System.Web.UI.Page.LoadAllState() +36
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +6704
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +245
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest() +72
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestWithNoAssert(HttpContext context) +21
   System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) +58
   ASP.sfpageservice_39c2063d_5e94_6235_ab28_ff0000bff8e4_81t443621a48_identitycontrol_aspx.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context) in c:\windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\Temporary ASP.NET Files\root\5a29e4d4\3e5d307b\App_Web_39c2063d-5e94-6235-ab28-ff0000bff8e4_81t443621a48_identitycontrol.aspx.d63928b6.r76ah7y6.0.cs:0
   System.Web.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +341
   System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +69

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.34248

Posted by Community Admin on 12-Oct-2015 00:00

Hi,

It is possible to receive such kind of messages if you are preloading the page much faster as the viewstate field is not yet loaded, and thus cannot be properly validated on the server.

Further information regarding this error could be found in the articles below:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2915218

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/cd9c5c03-4bf3-472b-814a-cd498b190c57/validation-of-viewstate-mac-failed-if-this-application-is-hosted-by-a-web-farm-or-cluster-ensure?forum=vstswebtest

I want to inform you that this error is related to ASP.NET not Sitefinity itself and could be observed on other applications.

Regards,
Stefani Tacheva
Telerik

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