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Asked: 2026-05-18T04:33:06+00:00

i have a web site that uses forms authentication. the problem is that i

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i have a web site that uses forms authentication. the problem is that i have the site installed multiple times on the same production servers because i need to have a few different login pages (based on the domain in this case). after the domain specific login page, the rest of the site is the same. obviously, this requires a lot of maintenance as each new version has to be installed multiple times on the server (with varying the login page in the web.config file).

so i thought is there a way to install the site on 1 folder on the disk, have a web site on the IIS take in all the needed domains and make some http module (or some other solution) in which i could give it a list of domains and the forms authentication for that domain. this way make the login page used by each site change according to the domain while still having only one site to maintain on the server.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I have seen this go a number of ways and a lot of it depends on how you have things setup in IIS.

    If all domains are on the same IIS website the most common solution would be to create a httpmodule, or even an actual .aspx page, that loads configuration and based on the requested URL send the user to the right login page. You could even do a “Server.Transfer()” if you want the users URL to stay the same. Then in the web.config you still set a single login page. Just make sure that each other login page allows anonymous users access.

    If all domains are separate IIS sites, i would recommend at that point just maintaining different copies of the sites. But the real question is why you need different logins.

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