default page

[njwilli3]

how do I set up my website so that when a user enters the url it opens my default page in another folder?

I'm using forms authentication so a user must be logged in to view anything in the root so i've set up a folder called AllowAll. At current when a user visits the site they will automatically be bounced to my login screen but i would like another page to be viewed before this at the address given above. Is this possible? Many thanks.

[Jacob]

Have you tried setting up a redirect from the main wwwroot to the AllowAll/Default.aspx file?

[njwilli3]

that's great thanks

[njwilli3]

actually didn't work, If i put a redirect on the index page (the login & home page) then everytime i want to go to this page it will redirect to default.aspx. I only want default.aspx to be displayed when a user visits my website.

[Jacob]

So then, I would suggest you get the script to check the address in the address bar and then redirect dependant on that.

[adam]

script in good old ASP code if it helps:

<%
if Request.ServerVariables("server_name") = "www.yourdomain.com" then
	response.redirect("http://www.yourdomain.com/AllowAll/Default.aspx"
end if
%>

[njwilli3]

thanks for the help but I've gone for changing my folder structure so that my forms authentication occurs in my "/Secure" folder but I seem to get the following error. Is this something you sort out at your end Jacob?

Server Error in '/' Application.
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Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify your configuration file appropriately.

Parser Error Message: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.

Source Error:


Line 38: -->
Line 39:
Line 40: <authentication mode="Forms">
Line 41: <forms name=".ASPXAUTH" loginUrl="Index.aspx" />
Line 42: </authentication>

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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.2300; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.2300

[Jacob]

Can you open a ticket with the URL of that error and we will take a look.

Regards,

Jacob

[njwilli3]

after surfing many sites looking for an answer to allowing more than 1 un-authenticated page to be viewed before a user logs in i came accross this which allows for URL authorisation. I've found it extremely useful for my problem. See following post:

Emergency-Form level authentication
2004-06-10 16:38:26 altanic [Reply | View]

look into the URLAuthorization stuff. I don't claim to have a solid handle on this but I've accomplished a working example on doing exactly what you guys ask for by setting each file/folder's authorization settings in the web.config file.

You would want to add an element such as:
<location path="PublicPage.aspx">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>

for each item/folder you want to be freely available to everybody. Conversely, you could open your whole site to allow users="*" and then change the above to:

<location path="protected_directory">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<deny users="?"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>

so as to protect this one directory. (or page if you like)

Thought it could be potentially usefull for others. More details of this post can be found at http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet...rmsauthp1.html