Add Login to Your ASP.NET Core MVC App

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Add Login to Your ASP.NET Core MVC App

This tutorial walks you through adding simple authentication and authorization to your ASP.NET Core application using Okta.

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Abhishek Chandra

On clicking of Login its not redirecting to Okta page.Instead its giving error in AccountController on below line.

return Challenge(OktaDefaults.MvcAuthenticationScheme)

Error is:
HttpRequestException: Response status code does not indicate success: 401 (Unauthorized).
System.Net.Http.HttpResponseMessage.EnsureSuccessStatusCode()

IOException: IDX20804: Unable to retrieve document from: ‘[PII is hidden]’.
Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.HttpDocumentRetriever.GetDocumentAsync(string address, CancellationToken cancel)

InvalidOperationException: IDX20803: Unable to obtain configuration from: ‘[PII is hidden]’.
Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.ConfigurationManager<t>.GetConfigurationAsync(CancellationToken cancel)

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Sanjeev Thapa

Any solution to this. I also have the same error.

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leebrandt

I just went through the tutorial and had no problems. Do you have code or git repo that you can share?

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Vinay Kumar

Using AddOktaMvc middleware, how to set ‘AccessDeniedPath’ ?

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Randall Eike

I got the error two when I had incorrect information in the appsettings.json. Specifically, I had the wrong Domain. Once I fixed that, it worked.

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Rohan Sampat (Rom4ster)

I keep getting a stupid login loop. What the hell, I see on Okta that I successfully logged in but the damn thing will keep repeating to the login screen because its not returning

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Matt Raible

What browser are you using? Can you try a different browser, or look in your developer console and see if there’s any errors.

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Don’t worry

How can someone extend the okta member model to add more fields?

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Matt Raible

This blog post shows how to add custom attributes to a user’s profile. Please let me know if this doesn’t work for you.