Running Sitecore 6 on Windows 7's IIS   Posted on 27. Feb, 2009 by Wim Haanstra in C#.

Just posting this info, for all the people getting an error after installing Sitecore 6 on IIS7 of Windows 7.

The error

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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.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: The system cannot find the file specified.

Well, the solution is rather easy… make sure you got the following code in your global.asax

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  public void Application_Start() {
	  System.Security.Cryptography.RSACryptoServiceProvider.UseMachineKeyStore = true;
	  System.Security.Cryptography.DSACryptoServiceProvider.UseMachineKeyStore = true;
  }

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14 Responses to “Running Sitecore 6 on Windows 7's IIS”

1. protherj says:

   April 20, 2009 at 19:53

   Thanks! This saved me tons of time debugging.
2. mbass says:

   April 28, 2009 at 23:28

   I’ll add my thanks. Thanks!

   Same error, same solution on Server 2008.
3. sbaumgartner says:

   May 2, 2009 at 17:57

   You saved my life, man!

   Thanks so much!
4. depl0y says:

   May 3, 2009 at 19:54

   Great to see that this actually helped people
5. alexshyba says:

   May 26, 2009 at 09:53

   One of my instances works fine without it, other needs this. Trying to get to the bottom of it. It is also required if you change the app pool identity. Thanks for sharing!
6. Daniel says:

   June 30, 2009 at 03:17

   Thanks. This sorted it out for me too. (Win7)
7. lewisg says:

   July 14, 2009 at 20:27

   thanks dude! solved my windows7 sitecore prob
8. Alex says:

   September 1, 2009 at 12:57

   Hi guys did someone tried the previous Sitecore 5.3.2 on Windows 7?
9. depl0y says:

   September 1, 2009 at 13:02

   Nope, not really, but I don’t really see a problem getting that to run either. Are you having any problems?
10. Andrei says:

    September 21, 2009 at 23:41

    It fixed my sitecore 6 installation on server 2008 R2 too. Thanks Man
11. Gregory says:

    October 13, 2009 at 01:22

    Thanks for taking the time to post this fix! It work for the Sitecore Express installation on Windows 7 with IIS 7.

    Thanks, thanks, thanks!!
12. Repox says:

    November 4, 2009 at 16:00

    Thank you very much – a quick google search pointed me to this solution which was a great help
13. adrian says:

    November 6, 2009 at 15:13

    Thanks man, you are the best ! just a google search and I managed to get the site working…thanks again.
14. Lars says:

    January 27, 2010 at 17:55

    I experienced this problem after installing SitecoreXpress with no access to global.asax codebehind on win7. Found a way to fix it here: http://maesitus-sitecore.blogspot.com/2010/01/cryptographicexception-file-not-found.html