Tridion User Interface 2012 - 401 unauthorized

Question

I'm working on setting up Tridion User Interface 2012 and have hit a problem.

I'm pretty sure I must have missed a step in the installation, but can't figure out what.

I've created a very simple Page Template inside a test website publication, with just one component presentation on it.

When I view the source of my published page I can see the JSON and JS I would expect, eg

<!-- Start Component Presentation: {"ComponentID" : "tcm:24-5001", "ComponentModified" : "2011-12-07T09:34:48", "ComponentTemplateID" : "tcm:24-294-32", "ComponentTemplateModified" : "2012-07-23T06:11:14", "IsRepositoryPublished" : false } -->
<h1><span><!-- Start Component Field: {"XPath":"tcm:Content/custom:Content/custom:title[1]"} -->Artwork</span></h1>

and also further down the page just before the closing </body> tag:

<!-- Page Settings: {"PageID":"tcm:24-9412-64","PageModified":"2012-07-23T07:16:30","PageTemplateID":"tcm:24-9411-128","PageTemplateModified":"2012-07-23T07:13:12"} -->
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" defer="defer" src="http://<cme-hostname>/WebUI/Editors/SiteEdit/Views/Bootstrap/Bootstrap.aspx?mode=js" id="tridion.siteedit"></script>

Where <cme-hostname> is my CMS address.

Using Chrome developer tools, I can see when the following url is requested I am getting a 401 unauthorized error.

http://<cme-hostname>/WebUI/Editors/SiteEdit/Views/Bootstrap/Bootstrap.aspx?mode=js

Does anyone have any idea what I might be doing wrong? (Tridion 2011 SP1-1)

Answer 1

A 401 unauthorized message could indicate incorrect authentication setting in IIS. You should change the “View” folder (WebUI\Editors\SiteEdit\Views) from Anonymous to Windows Authentication as displayed in the example image below.