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Asked: 2026-05-25T06:29:31+00:00

<authentication mode=Forms> <forms name=ASPAuth path=/Admin timeout=20 requireSSL=false slidingExpiration=true /> </authentication> On my dev system

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<authentication mode="Forms">
  <forms name="ASPAuth" 
         path="/Admin" 
         timeout="20" 
         requireSSL="false" 
         slidingExpiration="true" />
</authentication>

On my dev system I have the above in my web.config. This works fine if I am using VS web server. But when I host the same website on my IIS7 using a virtual directory it doesn’t.

VS Url looks like: http://localhost:xxxx/

IIS URL looks like: http://MachineName/MyApp/.

When accessing the website through IIS the IsAuthenticated is always false. I figured out that it’s because the cookie is being assigned to http://MachineName/Admin/ not http://MachineName/MyApp/Admin.

How I make it so that “Admin” is a relative path? I tried path=”~/Admin” but that doesn’t work.

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Answer:

    It’s simply not possible to do it at this stage. You cannot have a relative path with a tilda (~) in your web.config for forms authentication path unless you’re willing to write your own HttpModule.

    See this post (and the comments):
    http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/2008/Jan/20/Forms-Authentication-and-path-in-the-forms-Tag

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