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Picasso H
Picasso H

Reputation: 41

ASP.NET Forms Authentication - not redirecting to any page

I'm in the process of learning ASP.NET and am still fairly new to the programming world.

While learning about authentication/authorization, I edited my sample app's web config file to enable forms authentication, and authorization to deny all non-logged in users. I created a blank Login.aspx form as well, but when I try to execute the app, no pages appear. IE shows:

"Page can't be displayed"

even though I'm told it should redirect to my Login.aspx file automatically. Other browsers such as Opera show:

"This webpage has a redirect loop"

This is what I have so far:

<system.web>
    ...
    <authentication mode="Forms" />
    <authorization>
        <deny users="?" />
    </authorization>
    ...
</system.web>

I tried adding the <forms> tag in between <authentication /> with loginUrl as Login.aspx, but still same error. I've also added the <location> tags to allow access to the App_Themes and Images folders.

I'm currently using VS Express 2013 for Web with IIS Express integrated.

Any help would be appreciated!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4977

Answers (2)

Picasso H
Picasso H

Reputation: 41

If this helps anyone out there, I finally found the solution to be that, when implementing the <forms> tag, the loginUrl attribute should have a value of just the NAME of the login form, WITHOUT the .aspx extension. So it looks like this:

<system.web>
    <authentication mode="Forms">
        <forms loginUrl="~/Login" />
    </authentication>
    <authorization>
        <deny users="?" />
    </authorization>
</system.web>

Thanks to whoever that tried to help!

Upvotes: 4

Sarathi Jayapal
Sarathi Jayapal

Reputation: 300

Enable Anonymous Authentication in the IIS and then try.

Run->ingetmgr->IIS Group->Authentication->RightClick on Anonymous Authenticaion and Enable.

Upvotes: 0

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