I had to repost it because I forgot to change the < and > tags in your admin folder you should have a new web.config file and in that file you can give access to the files that you want all users to have access to like this you can change the allower users="*" if they should be authenticated at all Put this within the section

Yes, this is a seperate class file. Basically, you can put your server-side code (code runs on the server) on a single web page, or seperate them in the code-behind with using the Codebehind attribute of the Page directive. Because you refer to the form control in the button Click handler that is in the code-behind, so we put that declaration inside the code-behind class as well, for example: Public Class ForgotPassword Inherits System.Web.UI.Page #Region " Web Form Designer Generated Code " ... #End Region Protected WithEvents frmpassword As System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlForm Private Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load 'Put user code to initialize the page here End Sub ... End Class If you develop your asp.net application in VisualStudio, you are recommended to use the code-behind model as it makes your code much clearer and you can seperate layout from code. For more information, see Web Forms Code Model[^]