Forms auth for directory

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Hi guys

Ok, I have a website which has an "Artists Only" section, for which you have
to login for. This section is contained within its own directory on the
server "/aonly".

I want to make people login before they can access this directory, with a
User control on each page for logging in. I'd like to use Forms auth and sql
server (i know how to check that against the entered details).

I also want a login.aspx page so that if their session expires, it's easy to
log back in.

Question is.. how do I create the forms auth and make it protect the
"/aonly" directory, and can I make the user control authenticate the user,
and then forward to the protected directory?

HOpe that makes sense!

Cheers


Dan
 
You should enable forms authentication in your root web.config (root of you
application, that is). For the subdirectory, you should then set the authorization
to not allow anonymous users. I presume the rest of the site is accessible
to anonymous users?

Here are the docs for configuring forms authentication:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/gngrfforms.asp

And here's how you'd set the authorization:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...html/gngrfauthorizationsection.asp?frame=true

Now since you're looking to control authorization on a subdirectory, the
authorization could go into an independant web.config in the child directory
you want to contol access to.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen
 
Thanks Brock,

That seems to have got all the security stuff setup. I'm assuming I put the
code to authenticate against SQL in a function called by the clicking of my
signup button, is that right?

In which case, when I've authenticated a user, what do I need to set in
order for Forms authentication to let them in?

Cheers


Dan
 
You want to do something like this

public void Login_Click(Object sender, EventArgs E)
{

_UserName = UserName.Value;
_Password = UserPass.Value;

if (CheckUserAndPassword (_ServerName, _DatabaseName,_UserName
,_Password))
{


System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(UserName.Value,false);
}
else
{
Msg.Text = "Invalid Credentials: Please try again";
}
}


which puts them back to the originally requested URL.

Kirsty
 
That seems to have got all the security stuff setup. I'm assuming I
put the code to authenticate against SQL in a function called by the
clicking of my signup button, is that right?
Click to expand...

Right - you'll have to write the code to do the actual authentication against
your database of usernames/passwords.
In which case, when I've authenticated a user, what do I need to set
in order for Forms authentication to let them in?
Click to expand...

So once you know the user has provided valid credntials, you use FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage("TheirUsername",
false) or FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie to tell ASP.NET that they're
logged in.

-Brock
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ballen
 
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