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Certains folders and/or files should only be accessible after authentication, while others can be available for everyone. How to do this?

April 26, 2017accessible authentication certains files folders

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Certains folders and/or files should only be accessible after authentication, while others can be available for everyone. How to do this?

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The answer is in the element that can be used in the web.config file. In fact, the use of it for authentication/authorization settings is only a limited set of its capabilities since all arbitrary configuration information specific for the specified location can be stored in there. An example to lock down an administrator section of a web application looks as follows: Pretty easy, isn’t it? In fact, the specified path can be a folder and/or a file (relative to the root of the application). Another point to take care of is this: web.config files can override each other’s settings. In fact, the web.config file on the l