IIS Virtual Directory/Application & Forms authentication

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Published on 2010-05-30T00:53:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/30 1:02 UTC
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I've setup and deployed a simple forms authentication website with membership using .NET 4.

I've created a virtual directory (now converted to "Application") in IIS7 and setup the web.config file in the virtual directory as follows:

<system.webServer>
    <directoryBrowse enabled="true" />
</system.webServer>

Great! I browse to the virtual directory: ../mydomain/books/

and I'm automatically redirected to the login page specified by web.config in my root directory and the url path is placed as follows:

../Account/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fbooks

At this point, I login succesfully, but I am not redirected anywhere, and when I manually return to the directory, ../books, I'm sent back to the login page, where I'm already logged in?

So I'm confused about what my problem is! I should be successfully authenticated, and than redirected back to the directory, or at the very least be able to view it manually after I log in right?

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