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Answer 1

+5 A:

Yes, place a web.config file on the subfolder with this content:

<configuration>
    <system.web>
      <authorization>
        <allow users="*"/>
      </authorization>
    </system.web>
</configuration>

Sergio 2010-03-11 14:10:42

Actually I noticed then I couldn't get to some connection strings in the web.config one level below this new one. Is that supposed to happen?

tyndall 2010-03-17 18:38:17

It could have been cause by the <connectionStrings/> tag in the original post

Sergio 2010-03-18 10:34:46

Answer 2

+1 A:

yes you can, you can use location tag in the web.config to configure folder level security.

lakhlaniprashant.blogspot.com 2010-03-11 14:12:25

I would probably use this method if I had many locations to specify differently and I wanted to manage them from a central file. good answer. +1

tyndall 2010-03-11 14:38:09

ASP.NET Forms Authentication and a "No Authentication" subfolder