Allow anonymous access to a specific page in a sharepoint site

Question

The sharepoint site doesn't allow anonymous access and uses forms authentication, however I have custom page in "_layouts/" that anonymous users need to be able to access.

I thought it would be enough to add a <location></location> tag in the web.config with the correct path that allowed anonymous access (<allow users="*" />), however, this seems to have no effect.

Answer 1

I figured it out, the problem was a bit deeper. The page in question was set to use a masterpage dynamically which anonymous users did not have access. Otherwise the <location></location> tag did work.