Disable IIS Anonymous Authentication

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  1. craig61a

    craig61a

    I have a site that uses Forms Authentication, and have denied anonymous users for a particular subfolder with web.config file. When I navigate there, my login.aspx prompts for credentials then displays the default page in that subfolder. I then get a popup from IIS asking me for Connect: Username/Password. I tried to find the proper place to disable this in IIS Manager and Permissions manager on the control panel, but about the only thing I could figure out how to do was change the various user quotas under permission manager. I'm guessing that I need to set IIS up for Forms Authentication, but I sure couldn't figure out how to do this in the control panel.
     
    craig61a, Apr 10, 2011
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  2. RayH

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    You won't be able to do this through your Control Panel. You can either manually modify your web.config file to enable Forms Authentication or use IIS Manager. Here's a KB article on how to connect to your site with IIS Manager:

    http://support.discountasp.net/KB/a400/how-to-connect-to-windows-2008iis-7-using-microsoft.aspx

    You can then click on the Authentication module to enable Forms Authentication. The module adds/writes the changes to your web.config file for you.
     
    RayH, Apr 11, 2011
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  3. craig61a

    craig61a

    OK, thanks. I edited the web.config in the root manually to set the Forms Authentication. I'll try downloading the IIS remote mgr and set it through there. I just want to disable the connect prompt that pops up after I have gone through my Login.aspx and arrive at the protected page.
     
    craig61a, Apr 11, 2011
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  4. craig61a

    craig61a

    Got IIS 7 manager installed and looked at Authentication. Noted Anonymous, Basic and Forms authentication were enabled. After some more reading I tried disabling Basic Authentication, and that seems to have done the trick. I no longer am prompted by IIS after entering my credentials into my Login.aspx form. Which is what I want for now...
     
    craig61a, Apr 11, 2011
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