title: Unable to make the session state request to the session state server?
body: <p>I am trying to use State Server sessions. </p>
  
  <p>I have changed my Session state to the following:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;sessionState mode="StateServer" stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424" cookieless="false" timeout="20" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Running my website from local host and everything works fine.</p>
  
  <p>But when i publish my website and try run it online i get the following error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Unable to make the session state request to the session state server.
    Please ensure that the ASP.NET State service is started and that the
    client and server ports are the same.  If the server is on a remote
    machine, please ensure that it accepts remote requests by checking the
    value of
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aspnet_state\Parameters\AllowRemoteConnection.
    If the server is on the local machine, and if the before mentioned
    registry value does not exist or is set to 0, then the state server
    connection string must use either 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' as the
    server name.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The website is hosted on Afrihost servers, after resarching the error i found that it could be because ASP.NET State service has not been started. Is there a way i could check if the Afrihost servers are running this service or to start it remotely? </p>
  
  <p>Also i know the IP address 127.0.0.1 is for local host, but because you are publishing your application on webserver it becomes local to that machine is this correct.</p>