<location> multiple file question

[David Thielen]

Hi;

I need to have the following in Web.config:
<location path="help/login*.htm">
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow users="*"/>
</authorization>
</system.web>
</location>

But it does not like the * in login*.htm. We have this as the help files for
the login page - but we have login.htm, login-en.htm, login-en-us.htm, etc.
28 so far and growing. Do we need to list each languages help as a seperate
<location> set of nodes?

If so this is a giant PITA. (Microsoft still seems to not think through
globalization issues that well.)

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[Dominick Baier]

you can only specify files or a directory. put them all into a single directory.


Also be aware that htm files will only get affected by forms auth if you
have mapped them to the ASP.NET runtime.

 

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Dave,

I agree with Dominick that you'd better put all those help document
pages(which does not requier user to login) in a sub directory so that you
can use <location> element to configure <authorization> setting for the
entire directory instead of individual pages.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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[David Thielen]

I tried help/* and help/*.htm but didn't think of help - that worked great.

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