Question

I’m developing a public web site in vs2010,
can I keep the authentication as windows authentication and just enable anon access
or should I leave it with the default forms authentication.

The site will NOT require any type of logging in mechanism…so really I dont see a point in forms authentication, but most users will not have windows authentication either.

So I am confused, in my asp.net web.config file what authentication do I use for a public website?

I also asked this question which is kind of related: developing site in vs2010 but changed to local IIS and prompts

But I am not having any luck with this :(. The site when using local IIS keeps prompting for a user name and password (See the stackoverflow question I posted above), ive checked the app pools, the security, and the permissions and it still prompts me for a user name and password. It prompts me about 10 times and if I keep cancelling out of it the page comes up but the images are not displayed nor is the CSS rendered. So it looks like it prompts for each image on the site, but all folders inherit from the parent and I’ve added Network, Network service, ASPNET user, the default app pool user…I dont know what else to do.

So two issues:

1) What do I specify in my web config for a public site
2) How do I get rid of this prompting!

Thanks

Answer 1

You don’t need to specify specify any authentication. Just deploy it as is, with the Web.Config out of the box.

<authentication mode="None" /> 

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