secure sub folder with forms authentication

grahamor

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

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

Ginger

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

grahamor

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

any chance you could give the full error