Form Authentication

[kashif_82]

Hi, I know a few things about how Form Authentication work and I have done it on several occasions but I am having some problems. The problem is that there is no ReturnURL.

I have my web.config file set up as the rest of my projects and the rest of the projects work fine. but whenever I try to enter a restircted page on my current project, it takes me to the login page without any ReturnURL in the URL parameters. which is why I can't redirect the URL to the page they actualy asked for (there are a/b 5 pages that are restricted).

Here are some part of web.config:

	 <authentication mode="Forms" >
		  <forms
			 loginUrl="catalog/login.aspx"
			 slidingExpiration="true"
			 timeout="100"
			 path="/"/>
    <location path="catalog/AccountInfo.aspx">
        <system.web>
            <authorization>
                <deny users="?" />
            </authorization>
        </system.web>
    </location>

this is really irritating me since some of the page also use URL varaiables to pass some of the values which cannot be easily passed other ways but that is not the point. the problem here is I never get a return URL when the user is redirected to login.

Thanks in advance.

[naijacoder]

Can you try and post your codebehind and show where you are doing the login in.
Patrick
** By the way where are you placing your web.config file becos i can see you have login.aspx under the catalog folder?**

[kashif_82]

I finally figured out the problem. there were two login pages created by the previous developer for this project. He had redirected users to loginb.aspx page without passing any of the URL parameters. so it all works now, thanks.