Microsoft KB Archive/261151

= Default Formslogin.asp Is Called Even Though Custom Formslogin.asp Is Present =

Article ID: 261151

Article Last Modified on 5/10/2000

-

APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Standard Edition

-



This article was previously published under Q261151



SYMPTOMS
When you have a custom Formslogin.asp page in the folder where your content is secured with HTML Forms Authentication, the authentication service calls the default Formslogin.asp page from the _Mem_bin virtual directory.



CAUSE
You have not enabled Anonymous authentication on your custom Formslogin.asp page.



RESOLUTION
To enable Anonymous authentication on your custom Formslogin.asp page, use the following steps:
 * 1) Open the Site Server Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
 * 2) Expand the Internet Information Server object.
 * 3) Expand the server, and then expand the Web site.
 * 4) Navigate to the folder where your custom Formslogin.asp page is located.
 * 5) Right-click your custom Formslogin.asp, and then click Properties.
 * 6) Click the Membership Authentication tab, and then click to select the Allow Anonymous check box.
 * 7) Click OK.



MORE INFORMATION
The following excerpt is from the &quot;Restricted Access Login Sample Page (formslogin.asp)&quot; section in the Site Server online documentation :

When a user attempts to authenticate with HTML Forms Authentication, the process searches for a page named formslogin.asp beginning in the directory the user is trying to access and searching backward along the URL path to the root.

Keywords: kbprb KB261151

-

[mailto:TECHNET@MICROSOFT.COM Send feedback to Microsoft]

© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.