Login problems

[Krenshau]

I am integrating a shopping cart into my site, commerce starter kit, and I have gotten both to read from the same SQL Server with the same application name and I can login on the cart site with the same username and password that I use for my site. My problem is that if I log in to my site, then go to the cart, the cart doesn't recognize me as being logged in. I keep the cart in a sub folder and they both use seperate web.config files. Is there a way to carry it from one place to the other (I don't mean they are on seperate servers by that, they are on the same server). I am new to all of this so I am not even sure where to look to get this to work.

Thank you for your help.

[DNA7433]

To kick off the replies my best guess would be to look at authentication cookies. See if there's some way to have the same cookie used for both sites.

[Krenshau]

I think this is the cookie part, so I am trying it in both web.config files so that the cookies will have the same name. When I try it though I get an error for the path part. I have looked in the help file, and online a bit, but haven't found a difinitive answer for what the path is for.

<authentication mode="Forms"/>
    <forms name=".PEPWEB1" loginUrl="login.aspx" protection="All" timeout="30" path="/"/>
    <authorization>
      <allow users="?"/>
    </authorization>

Thank you for your help.

[Krenshau]

I misunderstood the error. The problem was that I closed the authentication tag before setting the forms. I fixed it, but it still doesn't carry over the information.

Here is the section for my main directory web.config file
<configuration xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/.NetConfiguration/v2.0">
    <appSettings/>
    <connectionStrings>
    <add name="PEPSqlServer" connectionString="Removed" />
 </connectionStrings>
    <system.web>
    <roleManager enabled="true">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider"
                         connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer"
                         applicationName="PEPWEB1"
                         type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider"/>
      </providers>
    </roleManager>
    <membership defaultProvider="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
                                             userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15"
                                             hashAlgorithmType="">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add connectionStringName="PEPSqlServer"
                                                enablePasswordRetrieval="false"
                                                enablePasswordReset="true"
                                                requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true"
                                                applicationName="PEPWEB1"
                                                requiresUniqueEmail="True"
                                                passwordFormat="Hashed"
                                                maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5"
                                                passwordAttemptWindow="10"
                                                passwordStrengthRegularExpression=""
                                                minRequiredPasswordLength="6"
                                                minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
                                                name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
                                                type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/>
      </providers>
    </membership>
 
This is from the cart web.config file
<roleManager enabled="true">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider"
                connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer"
                applicationName="PEPWEB1"
                type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider"/>
      </providers>
    </roleManager>
    <membership defaultProvider="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15" hashAlgorithmType="">
      <providers>
        <clear/>
        <add connectionStringName="LocalSqlServer"
               enablePasswordRetrieval="false"
               enablePasswordReset="true"
               requiresQuestionAndAnswer="true"
               applicationName="PEPWEB1"
               requiresUniqueEmail="True"
               passwordFormat="Hashed"
               maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5"
               passwordAttemptWindow="10"
               passwordStrengthRegularExpression=""
               minRequiredPasswordLength="6"
               minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
               name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider"
               type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/>
      </providers>
    </membership>
    <anonymousIdentification enabled="true"/>
    <authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms name=".PEPWEB1" loginUrl="login.aspx" protection="All" timeout="30" path="/"/>
    </authentication>
    <authorization>
      <allow users="?"/>
    </authorization>

Thank you for your help.

[Krenshau]

I didn't add this, and it won't let me edit that post now. This is in the main root web.config file

<authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms name=".PEPWEB1" 
             loginUrl="login.aspx"
             requireSSL="false" 
             protection="All" 
             timeout="30" 
             path="/"/>
    </authentication>
    <authorization>
      <allow users="?"/>
    </authorization>

[DNA7433]

Can someone else help this guy? I don't really know much about this.