Question

I have an asp.net application for which I need to expose a particular subdirectory to the public internet. When I go into the subdirectory’s IIS configuration’s authentication section, I cannot disable the Forms Authentication.

The setting is marked as read-only.

Google offers many discussions when I search for the error message, but I haven’t found a clear, working solution.

Answer 1

You have to use location in root Web.config.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/815174

 <location path="Your directory" allowOverride=”false”>
        <system.web>
            <authorization>
                <allow users="*" />
            </authorization>
        </system.web>
    </location>