Re: Default.aspx - newbie Q`

From: Colin Basterfield (colinbasterfield_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 10:20:52 +1300

No it's me not explaining myself very well.

OK, I'll try another way. Is it reasonable to expect the user to have to
type in the whole path,

e.g. www.mywebsite.com/selection.aspx ?

The point is at the moment if the User only types www.mywebsite.com they get
a 'You are not authorised to view this page' error message.

So my question is what do/can I do to remove that rather unfriendly message
and replace it with something that takes then straight to the login page.

So you are correct it is doing what it should, but I want to make the whole
rather more friendly.

Thanks for your patience, we live in the South Island of New Zealand and
there aren't many folk who I can bounce these things around with, so I am
mightily grateful for these newsgroups, that's for sure.!

Cheers
Colin

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_darkfalz.com> wrote in message
news:ufjZNtUBEHA.1732@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> if the selected.aspx is the default page then that's where they'll go, if
> authenticated... the thing is that you have FORMS auth, if they just
opened
> their browser, they aren't authenticated, so they'll get sent to
> login.aspx... Am I missing something...isnt' it acting EXACTLY as it
should?
>
> --
> Curt Christianson
> Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
> www.Darkfalz.com
>
>
> "Colin Basterfield" <colinbasterfield@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uYcD%23pUBEHA.3404@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi Curt,
>
> Firstly thanks, secondly just to clarifymy understanding:
>
> Currently I set it back to how it originally worked. I have
> <!--
> <authentication mode="Forms">
> <forms name="SiteSummAuth" loginUrl="Login.aspx" path="/" />
>
> </authentication>
>
> <authorization>
>
> <deny users="?" />
>
> </authorization>
>
> -->
>
> set up in my web.config, and I have sselection.aspx as my start page, but
> because of the config it goes to login.aspx, so provided you type in the
> browser www.mywebsite.com/login.aspx it works fine. With the correct
> username and password you get to the selection.aspx, because the login
does
> a redirect to it, and that is fine, and beyond.
>
> I want to have the users be able to just type www.mywebsite.com and it go
to
> the login.aspx screen if not already authenticated or direct to
> selection.aspx if authenticated
>
> As an aside when I set a page to be the start page in my solution/project
> where does that information get stored? What gets stored in the app that
I
> upload thro FTP to my host that tells it which page is the start page?
Are
> there any docs/tutorials about this because I am so green about this part
of
> ASP.NET development...
>
> thanks again
>
> Colin
>
> "Curt_C [MVP]" <software_AT_darkfalz.com> wrote in message
> news:OiNPjeUBEHA.2888@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>
> > It will try to go to the page specified in the IIS manager first.
> > If you have the AUTH setup in the web.config to not allow access to this
> > page it should redirect to the login page specified in the web.config.
> After
> > proper authentication have it redirect back to the URL specified in the
> > QueryString.
> >
> > --
> > Curt Christianson
> > Owner/Lead Developer, DF-Software
> > www.Darkfalz.com
> >
> >
> > "Colin Basterfield" <colinbasterfield@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:OsKxIVUBEHA.576@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My ASP.NET has Forms Authentication set up to use a login page, all
> > > configured in the web.config. I am in the process of trying to get it
> > > running on the site but have come across some problems. It all worked
> but
> > > if you didn't type in www.mywebsite.com/login.aspx it didn't go to the
> > login
> > > page. Once authenticated it goes to a selection screen, but this is
> > called
> > > selection.aspx, so I thought if I renamed the selection.aspx to
> > default.aspx
> > > it would then work if the user typed in www.mywebsite.com but it tries
> to
> > go
> > > there automatically seemingly w/out taking any notice of the
> > authentication
> > > set up, i.e go to login first.
> > >
> > > Am I missing something here? Is it my login page that should be
called
> > > default, but no documentation I have yet read does or even suggests
this
> > > practice.
> > >
> > > So I'm confused, any ideas please
> > > TIA
> > > Colin
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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