I found a way to get around this weird problem.
/commerce, everything works fine. After logging
This is even more bizzare than I think. Any idea as to why such strange
"CW" <a> wrote in message news:#sKm#0#FEHA.3640@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I have run into a really strange problem.
>
> My objective is that I only want user who have authenticated themselves to
> be able to access the website (and authentication is performed by form
> authentication). Only a registration web page is allowed anonymous access.
>
> I have the following contents in web.config:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
> <configuration>
> <!-- application specific settings -->
> <appSettings>
> <add key="ConnectionString"
> value="server=localhost;Trusted_Connection=true;database=Commerce" />
> </appSettings>
> <!-- forms based authentication -->
> <system.web>
> <compilation debug="true" />
> <pages validateRequest="true" />
> <!-- enable Forms authentication -->
> <authentication mode="Forms">
> <forms name="CommerceAuth" loginUrl="login.aspx"
> protection="All" path="/" />
> </authentication>
> <authorization><deny users="?" /></authorization>
> <!-- enable custom errors for the application -->
> <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="ErrorPage.aspx"
/>
> <!-- disable session state for application -->
> <sessionState mode="Off" />
> <globalization fileEncoding="utf-8" requestEncoding="utf-8"
> responseEncoding="utf-8"/>
> </system.web>
> <!-- set non-secure paths -->
> <location path="Register.aspx">
> <system.web>
> <authorization>
> <allow users="?" />
> </authorization>
> </system.web>
> </location>
> </configuration>
>
> With this web.config, I have run into a really stange problem. If I access
> the website from IIS machine that hosts this application, I get to the
> login.aspx as expected. After supplying the correct credential, the
> application takes one to the default.aspx as configured.
>
> However, if I access the web application from a remote computer, despite
> that having supplied correct credentials, login.aspx keeps redirecting to
> itself rather than default.aspx. I checked that login.aspx has executed
> FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(loginId, false) method correctly
> (i.e., login is successful) using VS debugger.
>
> Any idea what is happening here?
>
> Thanks in advance
> CW
>
>
>
