IdentityServer4 not working in production

Question

I am using IdentityServer4 with React start project from ASP.NET Core 3.0. preview 4 and it works perfectly until I build the solution and try to run it from cmd prompt usin

Answer 1

So I was able to solve my issues using this piece of documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/authentication/identity-api-authorization?view=aspnetcore-3.0#example-deploy-to-azure-websites

I had to enable "Copy if newer" to the appsettings.json properties so that it would get copied to the build folder.

I also added the following to the appsettings.json file:

"IdentityServer": {
"Clients": {
  "Client": {
    "Profile": "IdentityServerSPA"
  }
},
"Key": {
  "Type": "Store",
  "StoreName": "My",
  "StoreLocation": "LocalMachine",
  "Name": "CN=SigningCertificate"
}
}

Now the Key.Type is specified, which means that we can now just add the following to the startup.cs:

// Configure IdentityServer4
var identityBuilder = services.AddIdentityServer();
identityBuilder.AddApiAuthorization();

if (!Environment.IsDevelopment())
     identityBuilder.AddSigningCredentials();

I still do not understand why other people are not experiencing this issue, since I am not able to find any other threads on this issue and the regular way seems to work for everyone else. The only downside to this is that I need to install the certificate on the machine now instead of getting it as file.