Images not displaying on Login screen (ASP.net 2.0 )

[Craig G Fraser]

Hi, I have a problem with images no displaying on my login page. The web application is using forms authentication with the login Url set to "Login.aspx". It also denies access for anonymous users. This can be seen in my web.config file below.... Now when i run the app, and am redirected to the login screen, none of the images on the login screen are shown. If however, i remove the from my web.config file then the images are displayed. I assume that this is because by denying anonymous user access that it has no access to the image files in the website ?? If this is the case, how can i display the images on the login page, but still preventing anonymous user access ?? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Craigo

[minhpc_bk]

Hi there, I guess that you got this problem when you are using the ASP.NET built-in development server, and you should not have that when you run your application againts IIS. It seems to me that the built-in server retricts the unauthentocated user to access the image resources of the site, and I'm not sure if we can change the default settings of the ASP.NET development server. As a work around option, you can place the location tag in the web.config file to allow anonymous user to access the image files.

[Craig G Fraser]

Hi, Thanx for the prompt reply. Yes you are correct in that I am getting the problem when running with the built in server. Please could you give me an example of how you would use the "location" tag in the web.config file as you have suggested. Craigo

[minhpc_bk]

Craigo, It looks something like:

<configuration>
....
<location path="Images">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>
</configuration>

Here I assume you put the image files in the Images folder, you can also specify a specific image file in the path attribute. For more information, you can see the location element[^]

[Craig G Fraser]

Yes I have the images in an image folder.....thanx very much for youtr help, that works great. Craigo

[minhpc_bk]

Glad to hear that :), but I was going to the corner to cry and wonder why I got voted down with 1 :((.

[Craig G Fraser]

ha ha....Wasnt me dude...just gave you a big 5