How to set machineKey on Azure Website

Question

I\'m running an Azure Website. Whenever I deploy, everyone gets logged out because the machineKey changes.

I specified the machineKey in th

Answer 1

I had the same issue and in my case I was using the webdeploy to Azure wizard in VS13. I thought I was going crazy as I would set the machinekey in the web.config and then it would be changed on the deployed web.config to autogenerate. It is something in the webdeploy script/settings. My solution was to open the live azure site from within VS13 using the Server Explorer and then editing the web.config and saving changes. This preserved my settings with my supplied keys and all works fine.