I am trying to migrate an old aspx site that was built using GeneXus .Net Generator. Looking at the web.config I see keys with database connection information but it is encrypted
<add key="Connection-Default-User" value="******" />
<add key="Connection-Default-Password" value="*******" />
I don't know how to generate those encrypted values. Googling, the only place I saw someone referencing to those keys was this page: Web Model - .NET Generator Manual of GeneXus X.
Here is a sample value (from that page):
<add key="Connection-Default-User" value="Elj20MqY44RPdvT8FEpDD0==" />
But no details on it.
Any help on knowing how to generate those encrypted values is appreciated.
In your generated applications's bin folder, there is an utility called GxConfig.exe. When you run it, if it finds the web.config file it will modify it, otherwise it will create a new one (you may need to copy the file from your web server).
You can find more information in the GxConfig page from the Community Wiki.
Quoting that page:
In order to configure the database access parameters in production, the Gxconfig tool is provided for each datastore.
It allows specifying a database Name, server, user password included in the web.config file (web environment) or Client.exe.config file (win environment and reorganization). The username and password are encrypted in the same way as it is done in the GeneXus environment.