C#•17mo ago

❔ Trouble with C# certificates

Greetings, In a local environment I have no issues at all. When I push my Game Server (the client) to a hosted environment, I get an error saying the following:

{"Type":"InvalidAuth","Message":"This server requires client certificate for authentication, but none was provided by the client. Did you forget to install the certificate?"}

I contacted Ravendb support and they said the following:

Basically it's about the X509 certificate's private key. In a lot of platform you need to allow the app to load that certificate explicitly e.g. by providing its thumbprint.

My assumption of this response is that I need to first install the certificate on said machine before I can use it. The problem is that I don't have permissions to install a certificate on that machine. I am wondering what can be done. The following code is what I am using:

using Raven.Client.Documents;
using Raven.Client.Documents.Conventions;
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;

public static class DocumentStoreHolder
{
    private const string CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD = "B8ABC07EA75BC5B18DB92386A726F93A";
    private static string CERTIFICATE_PATH = Path.GetFullPath("certificate.pfx");

    public static X509Certificate2 GetCertificate() 
    {
        return new X509Certificate2(CERTIFICATE_PATH, CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD);
    }
    public static void Initialize() 
    {
        var certificate = GetCertificate();

        LazyStore = new Lazy<IDocumentStore>(() =>
        {
            var store = new DocumentStore
            {
                Urls = new[] { "https://a.free.starmmo.ravendb.cloud" },
                Database = "StarMMO",
                Certificate = certificate,
                

            };
            return store.Initialize();
        });

    }

    private static Lazy<IDocumentStore> LazyStore;

    public static IDocumentStore Store => LazyStore.Value;
}

using Raven.Client.Documents;
using Raven.Client.Documents.Conventions;
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates;

public static class DocumentStoreHolder
{
    private const string CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD = "B8ABC07EA75BC5B18DB92386A726F93A";
    private static string CERTIFICATE_PATH = Path.GetFullPath("certificate.pfx");

    public static X509Certificate2 GetCertificate() 
    {
        return new X509Certificate2(CERTIFICATE_PATH, CERTIFICATE_PASSWORD);
    }
    public static void Initialize() 
    {
        var certificate = GetCertificate();

        LazyStore = new Lazy<IDocumentStore>(() =>
        {
            var store = new DocumentStore
            {
                Urls = new[] { "https://a.free.starmmo.ravendb.cloud" },
                Database = "StarMMO",
                Certificate = certificate,
                

            };
            return store.Initialize();
        });

    }

    private static Lazy<IDocumentStore> LazyStore;

    public static IDocumentStore Store => LazyStore.Value;
}

3 Replies

Tvde1•17mo ago

you can bundle the certificate along with your program, it doesn't have to be installed on the pc

VelcerOP•17mo ago

That is what I am doing presently. The certificate is bundled with the program, and I load it from the file as you can see in the above code. That above code works on my local environment but fails in production. I have verified that the production server does have the file. I've verified the correct path. I've verified that the certificate goes into memory (loaded by the C# program). And I get the error.

Accord•17mo ago

Was this issue resolved? If so, run /close - otherwise I will mark this as stale and this post will be archived until there is new activity.

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