Forms Authentication Problem?

[modernthinker]

Hi,

I have conducted a search on the forum just to see if anybody else has experienced this problem and i couldn't find any similar posts. Here goes. I have set up a basic Forms autheentication. See below:

	private void Button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
		{
			if (txtUsername.Text == "????" && txtPassword.Text == "?????")
			{
				FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage("LoggedIn", false);
			}
			else
			{
				lblLoggedin.Text = "Login falied";
			}

		}

The web.config file:

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="Off"/>
	<authentication mode="Forms" /> 
	 <authorization>
        	<deny users="?" /> 
    	</authorization>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Now this all works on my localhost, however as soon as i upload my webconfig file onto my webserver i get the following error:

RUNTIME ERROR
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="Off"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

I am totally stumped to whats wrong here?

As always any help is greatly appreciated.

[Lord_Rat]

On the target Web folder, has your application's folder been CREATEd in IIS as a virtual application??

Does it work if you load the pages to the highest level (root) folder of the Web server and run them from there? (not in their own subfolder)

[modernthinker]

Lord_Rat, thanks for your suggestion. I put all the pages in the root as you suggested and it works, why is this? For future projects, how would i get it to work should i put the pages in a subfolder?

Thanks!!!

[Lord_Rat]

Because every dot-net app needs to reside (as its base) in the highest folder that was CREATEd as a IIS application. The root automatically is, the rest has to be done by hand.

Speak with your Web host on this one.