I'm trying to set a different authentication and authorization for folders in my intranet application (windows authentication) like below. I tried to use location tag, but it doesn't work when the folder's name contains space, otherwise anything works well.
<location path="parentfolder/appro logistique">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow roles="domain\groupename"/>
<deny users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
How can I fix that?
Thanks for your help.
Have you tried HTML encoding the URL?
i.e.
path="parentfolder/appro%20logistique">
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I have a folder with several survey aspx pages. I have to set permissions on these aspx pages. There are 5 different pages and only one allows certain users to access. I have added a web.config file to allow and deny the users, but it's not working. If I allow my username and add a deny="?" I don't have access, but if I add another user, take mine out and take the deny option out I get permission to log onto the system. I can get access if I take deny out, but then all users is getting access to the page.
Adding my user credentials on and denying all anonymous users I don't get access. Can somebody please point me in the right direction of what I'm doing wrong?
Can it be that it is not reading or taking my windows logon credentials? I'm using visual studio 2012, entity framework.
This is what I've done:
//Web Config that allows and denies:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
<location path="QualityCheckSurvey.aspx">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="DomainName\User2" />
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
</configuration>
I have set my authentication mode to windows.
EDIT
It seems that the permissions were set incorrectly. But it's still not working. When I deny *, but allow USER1 the user don't get access even when prompted with a login request. The login windows dialog boks just keep on popping up 3times with even if the used have access. making it deny ? (anonymous) allows everybody to have access, even if I take out the deny and only have the allow tag with USER1 the rest of the users still have access... I'm running locally now, but even on the IIS when setting the authentication on there with (windows and basic authentication) does exactly the same....
EDIT
This is the actual code that I am using. Only 3 users are allowed in this path "". This web.config file is within the survey folder with the 5 different types of surveys. Only this one survey should allow certain users, the rest of the surveys anyone can access....
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
<location path="QualityCheckSurvey.aspx">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
<allow users="OEP\kevinh, OEP\shabierg, OEP\heilened" />
<deny users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
In my main web.cofin in the root of the application I have set authentication mode to windows:
<authentication mode="Windows">
<!--<forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login.aspx" timeout="2880" />-->
</authentication>
On your question you said you have a folder name but on the web.config you have given only the file name on the path. Use the foldername/filename.aspx like below. Use deny users="*" instead of deny users="?'
<location path="foldername/QualityCheckSurvey.aspx">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="DomainName\User2"/>
<deny users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
EDIT
This looks like you have multiple web.config files in the same application. To avoid confusion just remove the one on the survey folder and on the root folder web.config add this code.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.web>
<authorization>
<authentication mode="Windows" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
<location path="survey/QualityCheckSurvey.aspx">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="OEP\kevinh, OEP\shabierg, OEP\heilened" />
<deny users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
I am assuming the survey folder is inside the root folder.
Fixing this error if windows authentication is added to project after it's been created
That's a mouthful. I was having this issue when I added Windows authentication to an existing project. There were a couple of key things that I needed to do before it works:
In Solution Explorer, Click on the project and then push F4. This should open up the Project properties.
In Project Properties and under the Development Server, make the following changes:
Anonymous Authentication: Disabled
Windows Authentication: Enabled
Include the following in the Web.config under <system.web>:
<authorization>
<allow users="DOMAIN\user"/>
<deny users="*"/>
</authorization>
Still in the Web.config under <appSettings>:
<add key="owin:AutomaticAppStartup" value="false"/>
This is what worked for me. If I'm doing something wrong, please let me know.
Hopefully this will help future individuals who are working with windows authentication after creating the project.
<deny users="?" />
<allow users="DomainName\User2" />
<deny users="*" />
I worked long time back on a website and it has been working fine, recently a problem has been reported, which I need to go through.
In my site there is a folder named repository, which contains files like word and PDF documents and ideally only logged in users are allowed to download them but now it has been observed that anyone who is not logged into the website, can even also download them :(
Is there any wayout to handle it without moving the folder out of the web directory? Like making that folder password protected and only my pages can access the content, any code sample or link will be of high use.
My web application is in ASP.NET 2.0 with C# and server has IIS 6.0.
Thanks in Advance
Edit:
My Web.Config has these tags in it:
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms slidingExpiration="true" loginUrl="Login.aspx" defaultUrl="HomePage.aspx" name=".ASPXMAIN" timeout="30">
</forms>
</authentication>
<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
Use the <location /> tags in the web.config, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/b6x6shw7(v=vs.71).aspx
<location path="content">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
See this answer for more links to msdn documentation: https://stackoverflow.com/a/4280257/426894
You can try with this config in your Web.config (location permit you to define path)
This sample use roles in order to design profil.
Also use users in order to design user.
<location path="~/MembersOnly" >
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow roles="Members"/>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
I have an asp.net application for which I need to expose a particular subdirectory to the public internet. When I go into the subdirectory's IIS configuration's authentication section, I cannot disable the Forms Authentication.
The setting is marked as read-only.
Google offers many discussions when I search for the error message, but I haven't found a clear, working solution.
You have to use location in root Web.config.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815174
<location path="Your directory" allowOverride=”false”>
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
In the application's root web.config, open it up and find the "</system.web>" line. Then add something like the code below to enable unrestricted access to a directory:
<location path="MY FOLDER/PATH">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
We have a directory named Admin in the root folder of an ASP.net (4.0) web application.
I have created a route to the Admin/Dashboard.aspx
~/administrator/dashboard/
and it works fine.
I was curious if I could disallow to run the file through direct access, even to the administrators.
~/Admin/Dashboard.aspx
Is it doable?
Please help.
You can do with some web.config setting like below
<location path="~/Admin/Dashboard.aspx">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow roles="admin"/>
<deny users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
Create a local web.config in the Admin folder and create an authorization rule inside the config file:
<configuration>
<system.web>
<allow ...
<deny ...
</system.web>
</configuration>
where allow and deny should be tuned to serve your needs. In particular, deny users="*" will forbid everyone from accessing your page.
I am using ASP.Net forms authentication to secure a directory called "pro". This is all working fine, however what we want to do is to exclude the root page within the directory - basically this is a sales page detailing the benefits of registering.
So, my question is whether it is possible to secure a directory, but exclude a particular page within that directory?
The other option, which seems pretty easy but not particularly tidy in terms of the file system is to structure my directories like:
/pro/
/pro/default.aspx
/pro/ (secure anything within this folder)
/pro/loggedin/page1.aspx
/pro/loggedin/page2.aspx
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Al
If you want to allow particular page, then it will be like..
<location path="PageName.aspx">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
To protect a folder, try the following:
<location path="/pro">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>