ASP.NET - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted

You have an ASP.NET 8 or ASP.NET 7 application that fails to connect to to a SQL Server database with the following error.

"The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted"

The reason for the error is that SSL certificate used to encrypt the connection to the database is not trusted. There is an easy fix for this by adding TrustServerCertificate=True to the database connection string in your ASP.NET application.

1. Locate the SQL Server database connection string, usually found in the appsettings.json file.

2. The SQL Server database connection string will look like the example below.


	"Server=mssql.example.com;Database=MyDatabase;User ID=MyUsername;Password=*****;"

3. Change the SQL Server database connection string to append TrustServerCertificate=True; to the end, as shown in the example below.


	"Server=mssql.example.com;Database=MyDatabase;User ID=MyUsername;Password=*****;TrustServerCertificate=True;"

4. Save and publish your ASP.NET application.

5. Run your ASP.NET application again and you should find the error has gone.

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