FormsAuthentication LoginUrl

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Kyeotic picture Kyeotic · Jun 23, 2011 · Viewed 11.5k times · Source

I am at a total loss here. This was working earlier. I have an MVC3 app using forms authentication. In web config, I have the following:

<authentication mode="Forms">
  <forms loginUrl="~/Login/Index" timeout="2880"/>
</authentication>

Yet, for some reason, when redirecting, or when checking FormsAuthentication.LoginUrl, its still using the default /Account/Login. Which doesn't exists. Why isnt the web.config overriding this?

Answer

frennky picture frennky · Jun 23, 2011

Try adding this to appSettings in your web.config:

<add key="loginUrl" value="~/Account/LogOn" />

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