Having different login pages for different ASP.NET MVC 3 areas

Question

Can I have different login URL for different ASP .NET MVC3 areas?

e.g. I would like to have different login page for Administrator and Data entry operators.

I see a web.config in each area's view portion and I have tried doing:

<authentication mode="Forms">
    <forms loginUrl="~/Administration/Account/LogOn" timeout="2880" />
</authentication>

but it does not play well.

Cheers.

Answer 1

I'm not aware of .NET handling this for you but you could create a custom AuthorizationAttribute

public class CustomAuthorization : AuthorizeAttribute {

  public string Url { get; set; }

  public override void OnAuthorization(AuthorizationContext filterContext) {

    if (!filterContext.HttpContext.User.Identity.IsAuthenticated) {
      filterContext.HttpContext.Response.Redirect(Url);
    }
    base.OnAuthorization(filterContext);

  }

}

An add that to your controllers/actions

[CustomAuthorization(Url="/Area/Login")]
public class HomeController {
  //...
}