Login Page styles are not showing while adding Authorization in web.config file

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When i am adding the authorization in web.config file, styles like, table background Image,Font etc are not showing in the Login Page. If i comment the authorization then it is working.

following is the Background Image style code

style="background-image:url('Images/BgColor.png')"

Below is the Authentication Code.

XML

<authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms loginUrl="Login.aspx"
             protection="All"
             timeout="30"
             name=".ASPXAUTH"
             path="/"
             requireSSL="false"
             defaultUrl="default.aspx"
             slidingExpiration="true"
             cookieless="UseDeviceProfile"
             enableCrossAppRedirects="false" />
    </authentication>
    <authorization>
      <deny users="?" />
    </authorization>

Posted 7-Oct-10 21:31pm

Robymon

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Nathan St · Answer 1 · 2010-10-07T22:04:00

Your images and/or stylesheet are probably being denied when the browser requests them. (because it looks like your web.config is set to deny everything)

Try adding something similar to this to your web.config:

XML

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

Robymon · Answer 2 · 2010-10-07T22:21:00

Solution 2

if i am removing

XML

<deny users="?" />

and adding <allow users ="*"/> it is working, but the problem is if anybody is using the URL of other pages without loging it won't redirect to login page.

Posted 7-Oct-10 22:21pm

Robymon

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Nathan St 8-Oct-10 5:59am

That's why you need to add the <location> tag I described above - you need to allow access to the images and stylesheet but continue to require authentication for the aspx pages.