"Cannot load the X.509 certificate identity specified in the configuration"

Question

I transfered a workking WCF service from my development environment to the QA environment, including the certificates (Root Authority, Root Auth revocation list, Service certificate - including its PK).

Afterward I located the private key usihg 'FindPrivateKey' and gave all the relavent accounts full permissions to access the private key file at the file system level.

My app crashes with a Unhandled Exception: System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot load the X.509 certificate identity specified in the configuration.

I am stumped, I think I covered everything, but obviously not...

I have tried this on a Windows Service Host as well as a Console App Host. Same issue.

Answer 1

Here's a tutorial explaining how to create a certificate that is supposed to remedy this problem:

Codeplex WCF Security: How To Create and Install Temporary Certificates in WCF for Message Security During Development.

Hope that fixes what you needed - even though you asked this 6+ months ago!

Regards, Joe