Membership provider deployment issue - asp.net

Question

I am trying to deploy a asp.net mvc site. My hosting service provider provides me dsn database connection for my sql server 2008 database. I changed my web.config to use dsn connection using this modification in web.config.
<appSettings>
<add key="myDSN" value="evdsn"/>
</appSettings>
In my site I have used asp.net membership provider. I have all the tables of membership provider in my own database. when I deploy the site I get the following error:
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My web.config file is as follows
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Note: As an alternative to hand editing this file you can use the
web admin tool to configure settings for your application. Use
the Website->Asp.Net Configuration option in Visual Studio.
A full list of settings and comments can be found in
machine.config.comments usually located in
\Windows\Microsoft.Net\Framework\v2.x\Config
-->
<configuration>
<!--<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="elmah">
<section name="security" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.SecuritySectionHandler, Elmah"/>
<section name="errorLog" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorLogSectionHandler, Elmah"/>
<section name="errorMail" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorMailSectionHandler, Elmah"/>
<section name="errorFilter" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorFilterSectionHandler, Elmah"/>
</sectionGroup>
</configSections>-->
<appSettings>
<add key="myDSN" value="evodsn"/>
</appSettings>
<connectionStrings>
<add name="evocon" connectionString="DSN=myDSN" providerName="System.Data.Odbc" />
</connectionStrings>
<system.net>
<mailSettings>
<smtp>
<network host="smtp.gmail.com" />
</smtp>
</mailSettings>
</system.net>
<system.web>
<!--
Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging
symbols into the compiled page. Because this
affects performance, set this value to true only
during development.
-->
<httpHandlers>
<!--<add verb="POST,GET,HEAD" path="elmah.axd" type="Elmah.ErrorLogPageFactory, Elmah"/>-->
<add verb="*" path="TinyMCEHandler.aspx" type="Moxiecode.TinyMCE.Web.HttpHandler, Moxiecode.TinyMCE" validate="false" />
<add verb="*" path="*.mvc" validate="false" type="System.Web.Mvc.MvcHttpHandler, System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add path="WebResource.axd" verb="GET" type="System.Web.Handlers.AssemblyResourceLoader" validate="true" />
</httpHandlers>
<httpRuntime requestValidationMode="2.0" />
<!--<httpModules>
<add name="ErrorLog" type="Elmah.ErrorLogModule, Elmah"/>
</httpModules>-->
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Abstractions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Data.Linq, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089" />
<add assembly="System.Design, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A" /></assemblies>
</compilation>
<!--
The <authentication> section enables configuration
of the security authentication mode used by
ASP.NET to identify an incoming user.
-->
<globalization uiCulture="en" culture="en-GB" />
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="~/Account.mvc/index" timeout="2880" protection="All" />
</authentication>
<membership>
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" connectionStringName="evocon" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false" passwordFormat="Hashed" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="6" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10" passwordStrengthRegularExpression="" applicationName="/" />
</providers>
</membership>
<profile>
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/" />
</providers>
</profile>
<roleManager enabled="false">
<providers>
<clear />
<add connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/" name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
<add applicationName="/" name="AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.WindowsTokenRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
</providers>
</roleManager>
<!--
The <customErrors> section enables configuration
of what to do if/when an unhandled error occurs
during the execution of a request. Specifically,
it enables developers to configure html error pages
to be displayed in place of a error stack trace.-->
<customErrors mode="Off">
<error statusCode="403" redirect="NoAccess.htm"/>
<error statusCode="404" redirect="FileNotFound.htm"/>
</customErrors>
<pages controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion="3.5" clientIDMode="AutoID">
<namespaces>
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
<add namespace="System.Linq" />
<add namespace="System.Collections.Generic" />
<add namespace="Telerik.Web.Mvc.UI" />
</namespaces>
</pages>
</system.web>
<!--
The system.webServer section is required for running ASP.NET AJAX under Internet
Information Services 7.0. It is not necessary for previous version of IIS.
-->
<system.webServer>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
</modules>
<handlers>
<remove name="MvcHttpHandler" />
<remove name="UrlRoutingHandler" />
<add name="MvcHttpHandler" preCondition="integratedMode" verb="*" path="*.mvc" type="System.Web.Mvc.MvcHttpHandler, System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
</handlers>
<directoryBrowse enabled="false" />
<defaultDocument>
<files>
<clear />
<add value="Default.aspx" />
<add value="Default.asp" />
<add value="Default.php" />
<add value="Default.htm" />
<add value="Default.html" />
<add value="Index.aspx" />
<add value="Index.asp" />
<add value="Index.php" />
<add value="Index.htm" />
<add value="Index.html" />
<add value="parking.htm" />
</files>
</defaultDocument>
</system.webServer>
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0" newVersion="2.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
<!--<elmah>
<errorLog type="Elmah.XmlFileErrorLog, Elmah" logPath="~/App_Data"/>
</elmah>-->
<location path="App_Data" allowOverride="false">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
</configuration>

Answer 1

You're specifying in your <membership><provider> node that you want the connectionStringName to be "myconnectionstring", yet you don't specify that connection string anywhere. You've got an AppSetting key, but that isn't being used either. So, yes, you should use the DSN name provided to you, but you've got to put it in the right place, which is the connectionStrings node in your .config file.
Update
This article about connecting to an ODBC database via the SQLDataSourceControl has some helpful info, namely, that your connectionString section could look like this:
<configuration>
<connectionStrings>
<add
name="ODBCDataConnectionString"
connectionString="Driver=ODBCDriver;server=ODBCServer;"
providerName="System.Data.Odbc"
/>
</connectionStrings>
</configuration>
...so, perhaps instead of using the DSN designation, you could use the "server" attribute of the connectionString and then just use their dsn name there?

Answer 2

What the error message is saying is that in the config file where you specify you'd like to use the AspNetSqlMembershipProvider provider, you are not specifying a valid connection string, which must be defined in a connectionStrings section of your config file.

Answer 3

Try using this connection string:
System DSN
DSN=myDsn;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=;
File DSN
FILEDSN=c:\myDsnFile.dsn;Uid=myUsername;Pwd=;
From: http://www.connectionstrings.com/dsn