Hi there:
I have tried all I could to figure out why my
FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(customer Id, RememberMe.Checked)
invariably redirects to the default.aspx regardless of the return page that I see in the URL.
For instance, when I login after coming in from the shopping cart page(when I click checkout in the shopping cart page which is supposed to take me to the checkout page), it rightly takes me to the login page. But when I login I am redirected to the default.aspx instead of being taken to the checkout page.
Any suggestions will be extremely helpful. Thanks.

Are you sure that the return page as specified in the return url:

http://...?ReturnUrl=somepage.aspx

actually exists and your user has access to it? If not, RedirectFromLoginPage by default will send you to default.aspx.

Jeff Mason
Custom Apps, Inc.
www.custom-apps.com

Yes Jeff, thats what shows in the URL
http://...login.aspx?returnPage=Checkout.aspx
 & it does exit and is accessible - I can access it after I login. However, it does not take me to the return page for what ever reason, immediately after I login like it should.
So, from what you say, it looks like for some reaseon FormsAuthentication.Redirect method is simply not reading the ReturnURL.
Shailesh Mark.

It's interesting that you say that the return URL is:

http://...login.aspx?returnPage=Checkout.aspx

Forms based authentication in .NET uses the query string:

 ... ?ReturnUrl=<somepage.aspx>

i.e. ?returnUrl not ?returnPage ...

Perhaps this was just a typo. Are you sure you are really using forms based authentication and you have the necessary settings for form-based authentication set in web.config?

I've used it on several occasions and have not seen your symptoms - it works fine - for me, anyway.

Jeff Mason
Custom Apps, Inc.
www.custom-apps.com

figured it out fellows. Just in my enthusiasm to reinforce my url authorization configured in the web.config file, I also added a few unnecessary lines of code in my codebehind that would still check for user.identity.name, and if null, then redirect to login. they would be redirected to login in any case because of url authorization configuration in my web.config. So I removed the code from code behind and it is working now. Thanks. Shailesh.

Hey jeff, saw your post after i posted the last one -- yes your were right -- there really weren't any typos to be exact. please see my last post. thanks.