I have a web site up and going and on the main login screen there's a help
menu option. If the person selects that before they have logged in, it
attempts to redirect them to a page telling them how to log in. Problem is
though that since they haven't been authenticated, the authentication
redirects them to the login page.

How can I have a specific directory or even a single page not require
authentication. I don't want to make the entire site a subdirectory - I'd
rather leave the directory structure as it is.

Here's the authentication line from my web.config:

<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="Login"
loginUrl="common/Login.aspx"
protection="All"
path="/"
timeout="30"></forms>
</authentication>


TIA.

Jeffrey

Check out the <location> element in the web.config.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ionelement.asp

"UJ" wrote:

> I have a web site up and going and on the main login screen there's a help
> menu option. If the person selects that before they have logged in, it
> attempts to redirect them to a page telling them how to log in. Problem is
> though that since they haven't been authenticated, the authentication
> redirects them to the login page.
>
> How can I have a specific directory or even a single page not require
> authentication. I don't want to make the entire site a subdirectory - I'd
> rather leave the directory structure as it is.
>
> Here's the authentication line from my web.config:
>
> <authentication mode="Forms">
> <forms name="Login"
> loginUrl="common/Login.aspx"
> protection="All"
> path="/"
> timeout="30"></forms>
> </authentication>
>
>
> TIA.
>
> Jeffrey
>
>
>

Could somebody post code to do this please? I can't get it to work. And the
help on the Microsoft page is really unhelpful. Here's what I have at the
moment. It works only on the login page. After that you get a Unrecognized
attribute 'location'. error.

TIA - Jeffrey.


<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="Login"
loginUrl="common/Login.aspx"
protection="All"
path="/"
timeout="30"></forms>
</authentication>

<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
<allow users="*" location="/LoginHelp.html"></allow>
</authorization>




"Anders Bornholm" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:A9A992D6-68AA-4995-BCA7-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Check out the <location> element in the web.config.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ionelement.asp
>
> "UJ" wrote:
>
>> I have a web site up and going and on the main login screen there's a
>> help
>> menu option. If the person selects that before they have logged in, it
>> attempts to redirect them to a page telling them how to log in. Problem
>> is
>> though that since they haven't been authenticated, the authentication
>> redirects them to the login page.
>>
>> How can I have a specific directory or even a single page not require
>> authentication. I don't want to make the entire site a subdirectory - I'd
>> rather leave the directory structure as it is.
>>
>> Here's the authentication line from my web.config:
>>
>> <authentication mode="Forms">
>> <forms name="Login"
>> loginUrl="common/Login.aspx"
>> protection="All"
>> path="/"
>> timeout="30"></forms>
>> </authentication>
>>
>>
>> TIA.
>>
>> Jeffrey
>>
>>
>>