Allowing a help page before somebody logs in.

[UJ]

I have a login page that is specified in my web.config in the authentication
section. The code is:

<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="Login"
loginUrl="common/Login.aspx"
protection="All"
path="/"
timeout="30">
</forms>
</authentication>

I want to allow people access to a loginhelp page to explain how to log in.
I have tried putting the following code in web.config but whenever somebody
clicks on the link to the loginhelp page, it goes to the login page (I
assume because they haven't logged in yet.) The code I'm using for the
loginhelp page in web.config is:

<location path="LogonHelp.html">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="?"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>

Can anybody give me any insight as to what I'm doing wrong?

TIA - Jeffrey.

[Curt_C [MVP]]

Try replacing the "?" with a "*" in the <allow users> section.
See if that helps.

--
Curt Christianson
site: http://www.darkfalz.com
blog: http://blog.darkfalz.com

"UJ" wrote:

I have a login page that is specified in my web.config in the authentication
section. The code is:

<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="Login"
loginUrl="common/Login.aspx"
protection="All"
path="/"
timeout="30">
</forms>
</authentication>

I want to allow people access to a loginhelp page to explain how to log in.
I have tried putting the following code in web.config but whenever somebody
clicks on the link to the loginhelp page, it goes to the login page (I
assume because they haven't logged in yet.) The code I'm using for the
loginhelp page in web.config is:

<location path="LogonHelp.html">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="?"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>

Can anybody give me any insight as to what I'm doing wrong?

TIA - Jeffrey.

[UJ]

Thanks. That appears to have been it. It works now.

"Curt_C [MVP]" <software_at_darkfalz.com> wrote in message
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Try replacing the "?" with a "*" in the <allow users> section.
See if that helps.

--
Curt Christianson
site: http://www.darkfalz.com
blog: http://blog.darkfalz.com

"UJ" wrote:

I have a login page that is specified in my web.config in the
authentication
section. The code is:

<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="Login"
loginUrl="common/Login.aspx"
protection="All"
path="/"
timeout="30">
</forms>
</authentication>

I want to allow people access to a loginhelp page to explain how to log
in.
I have tried putting the following code in web.config but whenever
somebody
clicks on the link to the loginhelp page, it goes to the login page (I
assume because they haven't logged in yet.) The code I'm using for the
loginhelp page in web.config is:

<location path="LogonHelp.html">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="?"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>

Can anybody give me any insight as to what I'm doing wrong?

TIA - Jeffrey.