Before you begin

This guide shows you how to use Okta as the user store for your web application and sign users in.

If you are building a single-page (browser) app, see Sign users in to your single-page application instead. Or, if you are building a server that returns API responses (but not HTML), see Protect your API endpoints.

This guide assumes that you:

• Have an Okta Developer Edition organization. Don't have one? Create one for free.
• Know the basics of building Web applications.
• Have a project or application that you want to add authentication to.
• Are building a web app that's rendered by a server.

If you don't have an existing app, or are new to building apps, start with this documentation:

• ASP.NET
• ASP.NET Core 2.x
• ASP.NET Core 3.x
• Go
• Node Express
• PHP
• Spring Boot

The ASP.NET Core quickstart teaches you the basics of building an ASP.NET Core application.

Or, if you want to skip this guide and just download a working sample app, download our ASP.NET Core example.

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