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Rename the Membership Provider in the web.config file for your Extended SSP Site

After configuring your extended SSP site, rename the membership provider in the web.config file of your extended SSP site. Choose whatever name you want for the extended SSP site, but use a unique name to avoid membership provider conflicts.

To manually update the web.config file for your extended SSP web site

  1. Click Start, Programs, Administrative Tools, Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.

    The Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager opens.

  2. Expand the Web Sites folder, and then locate your extended SSP Web Site.
  3. Right-click your extended SSP Web Site, and select Stop.

    The extended SSP Web site stops.

  4. Right-click your extended SSP Web site, and select Open.

    A new Explorer window opens.

  5. Create a backup copy of the existing web.config file.
  6. Locate the web.config file and open it with a text editor.

    Important! Do not use Notepad, Wordpad (or any other text editor with line-length limitations) to edit the .config (XML) files. A text editor that is designed for writing programming source code typically does not have such line-length limitations. For more information, see the documentation or online help for your respective editor.

  7. Locate the following section: 
    <membership extendedProvider="CAMemberProvider">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="CAMemberProvider" type="CA.SMMemberRoleProvider.SMMemberProvider,CA.SiteMinder.MemberRoleProvider, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=e9a76eb29817bc54" />
  8. Locate and rename the instances of the following membership provider name (within the previous seciton): 
    "CAMemberProvider"

    For example, rename the membership provider to the following:

    "ExtSSPMemberProvider"

    Note: Record this setting for future reference.

  9. Save the web.config file and close the text editor.
  10. Close the Explorer window.
  11. Right-click your extended SSP Web Site in the IIS Manager, and select Start.

    The web config file for your extended SSP Web Site is updated.