Error Umbraco Membership Provider

Question

I just uploaded my Umbraco website to my server, but I'm getting the following error when trying to access it:

Configuration Error

Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately. 

Parser Error Message: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.

Source Error: 


Line 143:      <providers>
Line 144:        <clear />
Line 145:        <add name="UmbracoMembershipProvider" type="Umbraco.Web.Security.Providers.MembersMembershipProvider, Umbraco" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" minRequiredPasswordLength="8" useLegacyEncoding="true" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" defaultMemberTypeAlias="Member" passwordFormat="Hashed" />
Line 146:        <add name="UsersMembershipProvider" type="Umbraco.Web.Security.Providers.UsersMembershipProvider, Umbraco" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" minRequiredPasswordLength="8" useLegacyEncoding="true" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" passwordFormat="Hashed" />
Line 147:      </providers>

And there's no other information about the error. Anybody knows how to deal with this?

Thank you very much!

Answer 1

I got this error because I accidentally removed global.asax and packages.config from my Visual Studio solution. I restored these files from recycle bin and everything was fine again (think it was missing global.asax that was the culprit).