Asp – Mysteriously appearing required NT authentication after Classic ASP site update

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A developer posts their code from a staging site (which requires authentication) to the live public site (which should not) and suddenly the live site is requiring authentication (which is not good).

They don't have permissions to change any settings on the server(s) and there is no call from the code on the live site to anything on the staging site, that I can locate. (No forgotten calls to an image on the staging site or anything)

Can the group think of some file that might have been removed/changed that could cause this to happen? I checked this question as well – [HTTP Authentication in ASP Classic via IIS] – but none of those methods are being used.

App is Classic ASP, IIS6.0 server.
Security Settings – Anonymous Access permitted on the live site. Account for anonymous internet users allowed read access to the directory where the site is located – user is unable to change directory or site permissions on the server.

Thanks!

Best Answer

Did the files retain their security permissions from the folder they were copied from? Reset the permissions on the files.

Are you using a four-part URL to get to the site (http://www.somesite.com/)? That will default to the Internet zone and not intranet, prompting for authentication.

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IIS Express and Classic ASP

OK we've had this and this is how I've found a solution.. In our case I think it was linked to parent paths but could have been session state too...

Browse to C:\Documents and Settings\$your user name$\My Documents\IISExpress\config

Open applicationHost.config

Find the <system.webServer> section

Change the <asp> section to the following… By default it only had the cache and empty limits bits but feel free to adjust any parameters you don't want.

<asp 
     enableParentPaths="true" 
     bufferingOn="true" 
     errorsToNTLog="true" 
     appAllowDebugging="true" 
     appAllowClientDebug="true" 
     scriptErrorSentToBrowser="true">

     <session allowSessionState="true" />
     <cache diskTemplateCacheDirectory="%TEMP%\iisexpress\ASP Compiled Templates" />
     <limits />
</asp>

Save and restart iis express.

Config Error: This configuration section cannot be used at this path

I had the same problem. Don't remember where I found it on the web, but here is what I did:

Click "Start button"
in the search box, enter "Turn windows features on or off"
in the features window, Click: "Internet Information Services"
Click: "World Wide Web Services"
Click: "Application Development Features"
Check (enable) the features. I checked all but CGI.

btw, I'm using Windows 7. Many comments over the years have certified this works all the way up to Windows 10 and Server 2019, as well.

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IIS Express and Classic ASP

Config Error: This configuration section cannot be used at this path

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