Question

I just took my local, functioning umbraco installation and copied it over to the testing environment.

Suddenly ALL requests to my umbraco site, meaning css, javascript etc redirect to the login.aspx page. So the website is non-functional, unless you login. If you manage to login using the no-css form, then everything is back to normal.

Web.config says

<authentication mode="Forms">
      <forms name="yourAuthCookie" loginUrl="login.aspx" protection="All" path="/" timeout="120" />
</authentication>
<authorization>
    <allow users="*" />
</authorization>

Changing * to ? makes no difference. What could be the matter here? My setup is 2 configuration mirroring IIS7 web servers, looking at a common UNC path.

Answer 1

You need to specify allow users="?" to allow anonymous users.

Check also the section membership…
My web.config contains:

<membership defaultProvider="UmbracoMembershipProvider" userIsOnlineTimeWindow="15">
      <providers>
        <clear />
        <add name="UmbracoMembershipProvider" type="umbraco.providers.members.UmbracoMembershipProvider" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="false" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" defaultMemberTypeAlias="Another Type" passwordFormat="Hashed" />
        <add name="UsersMembershipProvider" type="umbraco.providers.UsersMembershipProvider" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="false" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" passwordFormat="Hashed" />
      </providers>
    </membership>

You need to:

• Create a login page (like any other ASP.NET site).
• Create records in
  “Members” section (at least one member type, member group and
  member).
• Define the restricted access on content nodes (menu “Public
  access”).