ASP.NET MVC Authenticated User Being Directed to Wrong Route After Login

Question

I am building an ASP.NET MVC application using the 1.0 release using Visual Web Developer Express (temporarily). I am using the SqlMembership Provider and forms authentication to handle security for the site. My site security requires the user to login before seeing anything -- there are no anonymous user pages except for the login page itself.

I have changed changed the routes in my global.asax.cs as follows:

    routes.MapRoute(
        "Default",                                              // Route name
        "{controller}/{action}/{id}",                           // URL with parameters
        new { controller = "Patients", action = "Search", id = "" }  // Parameter defaults
    );

I published the app on my local IIS (Windows XP) and hit the virtual directory like so: http://mymachinename/App/ . I am directed to the login (Account/Login) page as expected. However, after successfully logging in using a new user account, I am redirected to Home/Index rather than Patients/Search. The Home controller and Index view both still exist in the app, since I have not removed them yet (we may decide to display a home page as the first page of the app).

I am about to remove the Home controller and associated views from the project, since I have tried a number of other things, including a clean publish from scratch, restarting the web server and clearing my browser cache. But I am curious as to why this might happen since I cannot find any other reference to Home/Index in any of my project files, including global.asax.cs and web.config. Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Is there any chance the Home/Index is defined as the defaultUrl in web.config?

<authentication mode="Forms">
    <forms loginUrl="~/Account/LogOn" timeout="2880" 
        defaultUrl="~/Home/Index" />
</authentication>