Different behaviour with windows authentication on IIS7 websites

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Published on 2012-05-30T11:40:17Z Indexed on 2012/05/30 17:01 UTC
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I need to run a website with just windows authentication. Given the following situation:

  • The location of the default website is: c:\inetpub\wwwroot
  • The location of my code is: c:\Sites\WebApp
  • my hostfile is edited so any .local i use points to 127.0.0.1

I have created a new application called 'AppX' underneath the default website and point it to c:\Sites\WebApp. It will use the DefaultappPool. When I switch off anonymous and switch on windows authentication all works well when I go to localhost/AppX/.

What i really want is a new website (No need to question why I want this). So I created Website2 and did exact the same creation of the application. Everything is the same; destination, app pool and authentication.

Now when I browse to this website web2.local/AppX/ I get the 401.2 - Unauthorized error.

What am I missing here?

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