secure sub folder with forms authentication

grahamor · 08-03-2007 10:36PM #1

Hi,

My website has a sub folder called cms. I need this to be secured with forms authentication. At the moment nothing is happening, can anyone tell me what im doing wrong ? Thanks

My web.config at the moment has the following


<location path="cms/">
    <system.web>
    <authentication mode="Forms">
		<forms name="login" path="/cms" loginUrl="cms/login.aspx" protection="All" timeout="60" />
    </authentication>
   
    <machineKey validationKey="AutoGenerate" decryptionKey="AutoGenerate" validation="SHA1" />
    
    <authorization>
          <deny users="?" />
    </authorization>  
    </system.web>
    </location>

pwd · 09-03-2007 11:36AM

You can't put the authentication section inside the location tag.

Ginger · 09-03-2007 11:49AM

Put the forms auth in its own web.config in the cms folder to secure it. It will take the parent authentication otherwise..

grahamor · 09-03-2007 09:28PM

ok, i put a separate web.config in the cms folder.

Now im getting a parser error for the login page - could not load type ?

i've recompiled but no luck - any ideas ?

Ginger · 11-03-2007 08:36PM

any chance you could give the full error

secure sub folder with forms authentication

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