06-05-2021, 12:29 PM
I remember this one time you called me late at night, freaking out because your server kept rejecting users left and right.
We poked around, and turns out Windows auth was bumping heads with anonymous access, making everything lock up like a jammed door.
Or maybe basic auth was sneaking in, confusing the whole setup.
Hmmm, could even be forms auth clashing if you had that enabled too.
Anyway, your pages wouldn't load properly, and error messages were popping everywhere.
To sort it, I had you hop into IIS Manager first.
You clicked on your site, then authentication settings.
We disabled whatever extras were on, like if anonymous was fighting Windows, just flip it off.
But keep the one you need, say Windows if that's your jam for internal stuff.
Restart the app pool after, that usually shakes things loose.
If it's still glitchy, check the web.config file for duplicate auth tags and trim them down.
And don't forget to test with a simple page login to see if it sticks.
That fixed it for you quick, no big drama.
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