i am doing a login function where the users need to be logged in before they can go into the webpage.. even they keyed in the URL directly, it will redirect them to the login page.. It worked perfectly fine in the VS2005 but when i host it to the IIS, i can directly go into the webpages when i typed the URL.. Do i need to make any changes to the IIS??

edit: I am using MySQL as the database. when i am loggin into the system and i tried keying wrong username and password.. it vaildates.. but when i haven't authicate the users.. it can directly go into other pages..

Some help needed

Are you using Forms authentication and MySqlMembershipProvider or some custom login stuff? I would suggest you use the former. It works nicely.

well.. i used forms authication but it won't work out in the IIS...

and i didn't touch the IIS configuration.. for the SqlConnector, i made the connections in the data sources in the administrative folders.. As for the connectionString i declare it in the class file which resides in the App_code folder...

check whether the following tags were placed in your web.config... if not so please place it. It will definitely work...

<identity impersonate="true"/>
        <authorization>
            <deny users="?"/>
            <allow users="yourname"/>
        </authorization>
        <authentication>
            <forms name="uname" defaultUrl="Default.aspx" loginUrl="login.aspx" cookieless="UseCookies"/>
        </authentication>

Thanks and Regards,

Senthil Kumar M.