In web.config, how to specify a page that can be accessed without login?

[TaeHo Yoo]

In my current web.config, I have these lines
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<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="frmAuthentication" loginUrl="login.aspx" />
</authentication>
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How do I need to modify it, so that contactUS.aspx should be accessed
without logining in.

Thanks a lot in advance,




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[Teemu Keiski]

In the current web.config (that has this <authentication> setting) you
probably have authorization set as:

<authorization>
<deny users="?" />
</authorization>

that would impact all pages in the application by default.

Now to the answer, you can specify different <authorization> for a specific
page or subfolder by using <location> tag. Set this <location> element
outside the <system.web> tags in current web.config, but of course inside
<configuration> elements.

<location path="contactUS.aspx">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>

Now remembering the setting in generally to deby unauthorized users,
unauthorized users can now access login.aspx and contactUS.aspx pages in
your application.

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"TaeHo Yoo" <yootaeho@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> In my current web.config, I have these lines
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> <authentication mode="Forms">
> <forms name="frmAuthentication" loginUrl="login.aspx" />
> </authentication>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> How do I need to modify it, so that contactUS.aspx should be accessed
> without logining in.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
>
>
>
>
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[TaeHo Yoo]

Thanks a lot Teemu Keiski.
However, a trick I have at the moment is when I access a page instead of
saying [url]http://www.AWebSite.com/ContactUs.aspx[/url]

I do like
[url]http://www.AWebSite.com/default.aspx?page_id=1[/url]
where ContactUs.ascx's page_id = 1

I created ContactUs user control and using page_id I load this user
control to default.aspx.
In this scenario how to make ContactUs.ascx page accessable to anyboy?

Thanks a lot




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