ASP.NET Core Identity Areas - asp.net

Question

I have an interesting problem and Microsoft's documentation doesn't seem to cover it. I am creating an ASP.NET Core 3.1 project and using authorization through the app, so you have to have permission to view the page, or some pages you just need to be logged into the application to access the page. That is all working correctly if you are logged in.
However with the Identity Area's they introduced on a user that is not logged in it redirects the user to: (If I manually add in /Identity/ it behaves normally.
"/Login/returnurl=something?something"
instead of
"/Identity/Login/returnUrl=something?something
Here is the startup file:
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
services.AddMvc(options => options.EnableEndpointRouting = false)
.SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_3_0);
services.ConfigureApplicationCookie(options =>
{
options.LoginPath = $"/Identity/Account/Login";
options.LogoutPath = $"/Identity/Account/Logout";
options.AccessDeniedPath = $"/Identity/Account/AccessDenied";
});
services.AddDbContext<ApplicationDbContext>(options =>
options.UseSqlServer(
Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));
services.AddIdentity<IdentityUser, IdentityRole>(options => options.SignIn.RequireConfirmedAccount = true)
.AddDefaultTokenProviders()
.AddEntityFrameworkStores<ApplicationDbContext>();
services.Configure<DataProtectionTokenProviderOptions>(o =>
o.TokenLifespan = TimeSpan.FromHours(3));
services.AddTransient<IEmailSender, EmailSender>();
services.AddScoped<IUnitOfWork, UnitOfWork>();
services.Configure<AuthMessageSenderOptions>(Configuration);
services.AddSession(options =>
{
options.IdleTimeout = TimeSpan.FromMinutes(10);
options.Cookie.HttpOnly = true;
options.Cookie.IsEssential = true;
});
//These keys need to be setup on Azure or where you are running it to make it work.
//services.AddAuthentication()
//.AddFacebook(facebookOptions =>
//{
// facebookOptions.AppId = Configuration["Authentication:Facebook:AppId"];
// facebookOptions.AppSecret = Configuration["Authentication:Facebook:AppSecret"];
//})
//.AddGoogle(options =>
//{
// IConfigurationSection googleAuthNSection =
// Configuration.GetSection("Authentication:Google");
// options.ClientId = googleAuthNSection["ClientId"];
// options.ClientSecret = googleAuthNSection["ClientSecret"];
//});
services.AddRazorPages().AddRazorRuntimeCompilation();
services.AddControllersWithViews().AddRazorRuntimeCompilation();
}
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IWebHostEnvironment env)
{
if (env.IsDevelopment())
{
app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
app.UseDatabaseErrorPage();
}
else
{
app.UseExceptionHandler("/Error");
app.UseHsts();
}
app.UseHttpsRedirection();
app.UseStaticFiles();
app.UseSession();
app.UseRouting();
app.UseAuthentication();
app.UseAuthorization();
app.UseEndpoints(endpoints =>
{
endpoints.MapRazorPages();
});
app.UseMvc();
}

Answer 1

I have just resolved the same problem adding these lines to the ConfigureServices.
services.ConfigureApplicationCookie(options =>
{
options.LoginPath = $"/Identity/Account/Login";
options.LogoutPath = $"/Identity/Account/Logout";
options.AccessDeniedPath = $"/Identity/Account/AccessDenied";
});