I ran the following command to encrypt credentials in web.config on my dev machine and tested the code and worked fine, however I published to the web server and it would fail as apparently the encryption is specific to the machine.
I then tried to run the same command on the unencrypted web.config on my web server and it completed successfully, however the same symptoms are still present within the website, where it cannot find the credentials. What am I doing wrong? What is the proper process encrypting a web.config section and then publishing to another machine?
aspnet_regiis.exe -pef "secureAppSettings" "C:\Users\project" -prov "DataProtectionConfigurationProvider"
