The system cannot find the file specified. error for .p12 certificate file

Question

I have used a .p12 certificate file given by google to fetch the data from google analytics API. All things work fine in my pc with visual studio dev server. but when I publish it to the production IIS server, I get "The system cannot find the file specified." error.

the code to to get the file path,

var keyFilePath = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Content/xxxxxx.p12");

Can anyone help me to sort out this issue?

Answer 1

Finally found the solution. when it is running in IIS, I need to set "Load User Profile" to True in the application pool's advanced settings to be able to load a cert by filename & password

Answer 2

According to your descritpion, I suggest you could firstly check your IIS application folder to make sure you have copy the .p12 certificate file to the IIS folder.

I guess you miss copy the file when publish the application to IIS.

I suggest you could right click the .p12 certificate file in VS and click copy always as below: