Question

I have a ASP.NET MVC project, and I would like to have a different LoginUrl for different areas of the website. Depending on the area of the site, different types of credentials are entered.

http://host.com/widget/home should redirect the user to http://host.com/widget/logon.

http://host.com/admin/home should redirect the user to http://host.com/admin/logon.

So far, the best solution I have come up with, is to have Forms Auth loginUrl=”~/Account/Logon” in the web.config:

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

In the controller for Account:

public ActionResult LogOn()
{
   //redirect depending on the returnUrl?
   string returnUrl = ControllerContext.Controller.ValueProvider["ReturnUrl"].AttemptedValue;
   if (returnUrl.StartsWith("/widget"))
   {
       return Redirect(string.Format("/widget/Logon?ReturnUrl={0}", returnUrl));
   }
   if (returnUrl.StartsWith("/admin"))
   {
       return Redirect(string.Format("/admin/Logon?ReturnUrl={0}", returnUrl));
   }
   return View();
}

Is there a better way to do this?

Answer 1

I asked and answered this in my stackoverflow question How to redirect to a dynamic login URL in ASP.NET MVC.