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    copied!<p>I have an admin site set up as a virtual applcation inside of another website.</p> <p>I would like visitors to the sub directory (the virtual application) to be promtped for credentials using the same Forms authentication set up on the main parent site</p> <p>Have tried all sorts of things but can't get it to work, including</p> <p>Removing all <code>&lt;authentication mode="Forms"&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;authorization&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;membership&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;roles&gt;</code> sections from the virtual-app web.config</p> <p>Copying the same <code>&lt;authentication mode="Forms"&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;authorization&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;membership&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;roles&gt;</code> sections from the parent to the virtual-app web.config</p> <p>Using a virtual directory instead of virtual application</p> <p>But I never get promted for credentials</p> <p>Anyone know how to get this setup?</p> <p>thanks</p> <p>UPDATE:</p> <p>Have now got it to inherit permissions from the parent, by deleting the application name in IIS (to make it a virtual directory rather than a virtual application)</p> <p>However, this screws all the paths in the admin site</p> <p>e.g. I get the following error</p> <p>The file '/Site.master' does not exist.</p> <p>So should I be using a virtual directory (which seems to inherit authentication from the parent)?</p> <p>Or a virtual application (which currently doesn't inherit auth from the parent but has the correct relative paths)?</p> <p>Here's the parent config</p> <pre><code>&lt;membership defaultProvider="SqlServerMembershipProvider"&gt; &lt;providers&gt; &lt;add connectionStringName="xxxxxxxx" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" applicationName="/" requiresUniqueEmail="true" passwordFormat="Hashed" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="7" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10" passwordStrengthRegularExpression="" name="SqlServerMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/&gt; &lt;/providers&gt; &lt;/membership&gt; &lt;roleManager enabled="true" defaultProvider="SqlServerRoleProvider"&gt; &lt;providers&gt; &lt;add connectionStringName="xxxxxxx" applicationName="/" name="SqlServerRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"/&gt; &lt;/providers&gt; &lt;/roleManager&gt; &lt;authentication mode="Forms"&gt; &lt;forms name=".EPiServerLogin" loginUrl="login.aspx" timeout="120"/&gt; &lt;/authentication&gt; &lt;authorization&gt; &lt;deny users="?"/&gt; &lt;/authorization&gt; </code></pre>
 

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