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'Error unprotecting the session cookie' in ASP.NET Core means the Data Protection keys were lost. What I reproduced, the different messages each cause produces, and the Program.cs fix for IIS.
Every guide to deploying ASP.NET Core on Plesk stops at "dotnet publish and upload the folder". Mine all went wrong after that step. Here are the five errors in the order you meet them, and what each one actually means.
Most guides to running Next.js on IIS assume a VPS you control and a reverse proxy to PM2. On Plesk shared Windows hosting you have neither. Here is the setup that works, and the four failures that cost me the most time.
ASP.NET Core runs on Linux, and so does SQL Server. Here is how to tell which .NET you are on, and how much RAM and storage each option really needs.
