SharePoint 2010 Blog site template and post security

Question

I asked this question on msdn forums but got no response in 24 hours. I am pasting the question here, I am sure you guys out there can help me :)

This is my first post:

I created a blog site with SP 2010. Anonymous access is enabled. Home page is accessible by all users but when the user clicks on a post title, security window pops up and asks for credentials. In short, post details are not visible to anonymous users. Anyone knows why?

And this is my answer to myself:

Ok, I turned off lock down mode and disabling access to _layouts and other special folders with web.config but I don't feel like this is the right way to handle the issue. Any help?

Answer 1

Check the permissions on both the posts & comments lists - make sure that anonymous access is turned on there.

Answer 2

Hi there,

I'm experiencing this exact same issue, albeit with the blog site as a subsite of a publishing site. I've tried all the different combinations of anonymous access permission levels for all the lists (posts, comments, links, categories) within the blog site, but still cannot get to an individual blog post without being prompted for authentication...

Very frustrating, can anyone shed any light on this?

Answer 3

After some digging around, I found the solution and have successfully implemented it :-)

Publishing sites have the Viewformpageslockdown feature enabled (it's an additional security layer). Disable it, and you're good to go!

Sylvie, not sure if your mention of "turned off lock down mode" is this? It worked for me.

More info here: http://www.petestilgoe.com/tag/viewformpageslockdown/

Answer 4

HI,

This above solution is applied to whole site collection. Where as in my scenario my blog site is sub site in site collection.So, I dont want to deactivate this feature on the entire site collection.

Any idea how can we make it to subsite level.

Answer 5

Please see http://dotnet4hosting.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/9-99month-sharepoint-2010-hosting-asphostportal-how-to-enabled-anonymous-access-in-sharepoint-2010/. Maybe this post can help you. I try it and this work.