"apparently it works"
Can you name reasons beyond good practices not to give these two:
connectionStringName and Membership Provider name the same string value?
could this be an issue?
as in:
<membership defaultProvider="MySqlConnection" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="45">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="MySqlConnection"
type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider"
connectionStringName="MySqlConnection"
applicationName="HQChannel"
enablePasswordRetrieval="true"
enablePasswordReset="true"
requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false"
requiresUniqueEmail="true"
passwordFormat="Hashed"
minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
minRequiredPasswordLength="6" />
</providers>
</membership>
as per this post
Thanks