asp.net membership for two projects in a solution

Question

I have two web projects both using the same database and they are in the same solution. One of them using asp.net membership.I want also include the other one.How can I manage this?

Answer 1

Configure the second app to use the same membership database. Change the applicationName property of the membership provider config in your web.config to something different from the first app.

Answer 2

I've done this for nested applications recently. Its not too difficult.

In addition to Kyle's points, you need to:

• make sure the the machineKeys are the same for both web applications
• configure loginUrl's to resolve to the same absolute path
• if you're using cookies you need to make sure that the domain is set to a value available to both web applications
• also for cookies, if your web applications are nested at diferent levels in a domain make sure that the path attribute is set to "/"

See this blog post for more detail.