When I make allusers login to a webpage with.conf, it breaks frontpage....

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Hello, I am having a problem.. I upload this web.config to my website:

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
   
 <system.web>

   <!--  DYNAMIC DEBUG COMPILATION
         Set compilation debug="true" to insert debugging symbols (.pdb information)
         into the compiled page. Because this creates a larger file that executes
         more slowly, you should set this value to true only when debugging and to
         false at all other times. For more information, refer to the documentation about
         debugging ASP.NET files.
   -->
   <compilation defaultLanguage="vb" debug="true" />

   <!--  CUSTOM ERROR MESSAGES
         Set customErrors mode="On" or "RemoteOnly" to enable custom error messages, "Off" to disable. 
         Add <error> tags for each of the errors you want to handle.
   -->
   
   <customErrors mode="Off" />

   <!--  AUTHENTICATION 
         This section sets the authentication policies of the application. Possible modes are "Windows", 
         "Forms", "Passport" and "None"
   <authentication mode="None" > 
   -->
   <authentication mode="Forms" > 


   <!--  AUTHORIZATION 
         This section sets the authorization policies of the application. You can allow or deny access
         to application resources by user or role. Wildcards: "*" mean everyone, "?" means anonymous 
         (unauthenticated) users.
   -->
               <forms 
			
			name="TeamDCI"
			                
               loginUrl="login.aspx"

               protection="All"              

          
                         
                 />  
                 
       </authentication>                 

   
                 
   <authorization>
       

	  
       
 <deny users="?" />
                            <allow users ="*" />

	 

           <!--  <allow     users="[comma separated list of users]"
                            roles="[comma separated list of roles]"/>
                 <deny      users="[comma separated list of users]"
                            roles="[comma separated list of roles]"/>
                            
						 
						  <deny users="?" />
                            <allow users ="*" />
                            
           -->
   </authorization>
   
   
   



   <!--  APPLICATION-LEVEL TRACE LOGGING
         Application-level tracing enables trace log output for every page within an application. 
         Set trace enabled="true" to enable application trace logging.  If pageOutput="true", the
         trace information will be displayed at the bottom of each page.  Otherwise, you can view the 
         application trace log by browsing the "trace.axd" page from your web application
         root. 
   -->
   <trace enabled="false" requestLimit="10" pageOutput="false" traceMode="SortByTime" localOnly="true" />


   <!--  SESSION STATE SETTINGS
         By default ASP.NET uses cookies to identify which requests belong to a particular session. 
         If cookies are not available, a session can be tracked by adding a session identifier to the URL. 
         To disable cookies, set sessionState cookieless="true".
   -->
   <sessionState 
           mode="InProc"
           stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424"
           sqlConnectionString="data source=127.0.0.1;user id=sa;password="
           cookieless="false" 
           timeout="20" 
   />

   <!--  GLOBALIZATION
         This section sets the globalization settings of the application. 
   -->
   <globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" />
  
 </system.web>

</configuration>

 

and from now on, I cannot login to the website adn try to change pages with frontpage... It just gives me an error or redirects me to the main login page... Also, when I try to edit the project in vs.net, I get an error saying I cannot edit the project also.. I just make the changes to web.config (to allow anonymous users and authentication=none), then I can open the vs.net project..

 

How can I fix these 2 issues?

 

Can I just change:

 

						  <deny users="?" />
                            <allow users ="*" />

to say allow frontpage (or the IP, granted the IP will change of the frontpage computer that is trying to publish the new pages)

 

 

 

 

thanks!

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I get this error when web.config is setup like the above:

 

the web server reported the following error when attempting to create or open the web project located at the following URL: http://localhost/webapplication1 A connection with the server could not be established