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Okta.LoginProvider NullRefereneException

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Unnsteinn Garðarsson
Unnsteinn Garðarsson
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Posted on 26/03/2021 09:28:18

Hello, I recently upgraded a project from 9.8.10 to 9.9.8 and along the upgrade I got some new DW features like Okta. I have however not selected Okta as an external authentication option but I am getting this error very often.

Origin: LogEventBeforeSave - Action: ExternalAuthentication - Category: Health - ExceptionType: NullReferenceException - Description: Error registering provider Dynamicweb.Content.Social.Adapters.ExternalAuthentication.Okta.LoginProvider - StackTrace: 2021-03-26 06:00:11.893: Error registering provider Dynamicweb.Content.Social.Adapters.ExternalAuthentication.Okta.LoginProvider. System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.   
   at Dynamicweb.Content.Social.Adapters.ExternalAuthentication.Okta.LoginProvider.SetMetadataAddress(OpenIdConnectAuthenticationOptions options)   
   at Dynamicweb.Content.Social.Adapters.ExternalAuthentication.Okta.LoginProvider.CreateOptions(String optionsName)   
   at Dynamicweb.Content.Social.Adapters.ExternalAuthentication.Okta.LoginProvider.RegisterProvider(IAppBuilder app)   
   at Dynamicweb.Content.Social.Adapters.ExternalAuthentication.OwinStartup.Configuration(IAppBuilder app)

Any ideas?

 

Regards.

Unnsteinn


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Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 26/03/2021 10:37:39
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What do you have in your "ExternalLoginProvider" table?

 
Unnsteinn Garðarsson
Unnsteinn Garðarsson
Posted on 26/03/2021 12:14:58
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It is empty. We are just using the Extranet for authentication, no external authentication is enabled.

 
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 26/03/2021 14:24:50
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I think that this and the other exception you have is quite weird.

This call stack should not be possible if you have no records in that table... Are you sure your are looking into the right database?

 
Unnsteinn Garðarsson
Unnsteinn Garðarsson
Posted on 26/03/2021 14:39:18
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Yes I am positive that I am talking to the right database. These Okta errors did not show up until the upgrade I did yesterday.

 
Alexey Tanchenko Dynamicweb Employee
Alexey Tanchenko
Posted on 29/03/2021 08:08:28
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Hello!

This bug was already fixed.
Update the Dynamicweb.Content.Social.Adapters.ExternalAuthentication.Okta package to version 5.0.2 and the exception should gone.

Workaround.
If you cannot update it for some reason, you can try to create an external authentication provider of type Okta, deactivate it and set some non-empty value for "Authorization server URL" field.

 

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