Can't get anonymous access to website

Question

Hi,

I have already asked this question on ServerFault however I got very minimal replies....one to be exact.

I need this issue resolved ASAP hence why I am asking on here aswell. I have a server running Windows Server 2003 IIS6.0. I am developing a website to which I want to grant anonymous access to. I have created a new Website in the IIS Manager I have ensured the "Enable Anonymous access" option is enabled and it has been set to IUSR_MachineName.

I have sync'd the passwords between IIS metabase, AD and MTA and made sure IUSR_MachineName has been given the relevent permissions. I just can't seem to get this to work. Everytime I try to access the webpage I get prompted to login. I set the anonymous login account to be my own (admin) account and tried that and it worked ok so I know it must be a permissions issue with the IUSR account.

Please help me I am fairly new to IIS/Server management and I am tearing my hair out!!

Thanks.

Answer 1

What technology are you using to produce the website?

If it's .net, have you configured the web.config to perhaps require some sort of authentication?

Typically if you want anonymous access, you use IIS as default, check the enable anonymous access, and you're done.
You shouldn't need to change anything else.

Try creating a new website in iis, with a dummy html page and see if you can configure that to work without any authentication.