<location path="ArchiveNews.aspx">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users="?"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
I want to deny un-authenticated users to the ArchiveNews.aspx. For some reason this code doesn't want to work. Can anyone help?
Does this web.config exist in the same directory as your ArchiveNews.aspx file? It needs to be in the same directory for your config snippet to control access to that file.
Just disable anonymous access in the gui iis manager for this site/application.
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I am currently preventing anonymous users access to my root application.
/web.config
<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
But am allowing anonymous access to public resources (Images, CSS, etc.):
<location path="Images">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
Now, I would like to add a virtual directory which should be accessible to anonymous users. I added a configuration based on the Images path, but whenever I try to access that location, I get redirected to the login page with the ReturnURL set to the virtual directory.
<location path="virtualDirectory">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
In addition, I tried to specify the global authorization within my virtual directory's web.config but get an error saying I can only have that once
/virtualDirectory/web.config:
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
How can I allow anonymous access to a virtual directory when my root application is preventing anonymous access?
In your global web.config encapsulate the
<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
with
<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
It means - authorization is enforced only in root app, not for the child apps.
Some notes.
The asterisk mark (*) represents all identity.
The question mark (?) represents the anonymous identity.
So ideally, you don't need to set to allow authentication for the anonymous user for your virtualDirectory in the global web.config.
Go to IIS, under your Virtual Directory > select Authentication > Enable Anonymous Authentication.
Refer
ASP.NET Authorization
How to: Create and Configure Virtual Directories in IIS
In your global web.config remove
<location path="virtualDirectory">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
Then go to IIS manager and
In the Virtual directory Home area, double-click Authentication
Right-click Anonymous Authentication, and then click Enable
Your authorization rules looks good. The last error you are getting is because you can have authorization section (in fact any section) only once per folder/file/path. So either have it globally i.e. under <location path="virtualDirectory"> or only in web.config of Virtual Directory. Having it in both places will give you an error. What is authentication set at Virtual Directory.
Make sure anonymous is enabled along with the allow authorization rule.
(IIS Manager ->Sites -> your specific site->virtual directory-> in the central pane Authentication )
Also in IIS GUI there are ASP.NET Authorization rules (the one you are using currently) and IIS Authorization rules. Make sure there aren't any deny IIS Authorization rules.
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">
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>