Integrating Umbraco with existing ASP.NET forms application
We are looking into migrating our website to Umbraco. This
would contain a mixture of public and restricted (by role) pages.
We also have a members only portal running off the standard
ASP.NET membership functionality. Although the new site could remain separate (it
will have a different URL) we would need a single sign on for both, so the
requirements would include integrating the new site with the portal in the following
ways.
They would both have to run from the same
membership tables in the portal database.
Once logged in to one site they should be able
to access the other without having to log in again.
Preferably user maintenance would be done in one
place: both the Portal’s existing custom roles and the roles for accessing
areas in the Umbraco site.
#1 I’m guessing this is not a problem as I’ve seen some
articles about how to do it
#2 – Would both sites need to be under the same website in
IIS? And if so is there any problem running Umbraco plus an ASP.NET forms site
together?
#3 – I suppose this would be possible with some development
work but we may need to live with setting permissions in two areas to begin
with
Would be interested to hear how anyone else tackled similar
scenarios, and would be grateful for any advice at all!
Correct on no1. In the umbraco config you could update the membership section to your membership provider. You can run the other site through same iis instance just ensure its in its own folder and that folder is excluded in the umbraco web.config so then the umbraco request handler ignores it. The web.config in your portal will need to be set up so that it does not inherit from the parent umbraco web.config else you will get errors.
Not sure about no3. Would you be looking to do the maintenance through umbraco or the portal?
Re 2: The portal is already up and running as the root folder of the website. We'd have to implement Umbraco in a way that posed the least risk to the portal, so would probably be looking at putting Umbraco in its own folder and (sort of the other way round from what you suggested, I think).
One thing we'd have to think about is that the portal runs on SSL so I'd have to get my head round how/if the non SSL Umbraco site could run side by side with the portal. In some ways it might be easier to have them as separate sites but I'm not sure how the only needing to log in once scenario would work.
Re 3 - not sure about that yet - would have to look at both options in more detail. We have some other custom stuff built into the maintain user page in the portal
Integrating Umbraco with existing ASP.NET forms application
We are looking into migrating our website to Umbraco. This would contain a mixture of public and restricted (by role) pages.
We also have a members only portal running off the standard ASP.NET membership functionality. Although the new site could remain separate (it will have a different URL) we would need a single sign on for both, so the requirements would include integrating the new site with the portal in the following ways.
#1 I’m guessing this is not a problem as I’ve seen some articles about how to do it
#2 – Would both sites need to be under the same website in IIS? And if so is there any problem running Umbraco plus an ASP.NET forms site together?
#3 – I suppose this would be possible with some development work but we may need to live with setting permissions in two areas to begin with
Would be interested to hear how anyone else tackled similar scenarios, and would be grateful for any advice at all!
Graeme,
Correct on no1. In the umbraco config you could update the membership section to your membership provider. You can run the other site through same iis instance just ensure its in its own folder and that folder is excluded in the umbraco web.config so then the umbraco request handler ignores it. The web.config in your portal will need to be set up so that it does not inherit from the parent umbraco web.config else you will get errors.
Not sure about no3. Would you be looking to do the maintenance through umbraco or the portal?
Regards
Ismail
HI Ismail - thanks for your reply
Re 2: The portal is already up and running as the root folder of the website. We'd have to implement Umbraco in a way that posed the least risk to the portal, so would probably be looking at putting Umbraco in its own folder and (sort of the other way round from what you suggested, I think).
One thing we'd have to think about is that the portal runs on SSL so I'd have to get my head round how/if the non SSL Umbraco site could run side by side with the portal. In some ways it might be easier to have them as separate sites but I'm not sure how the only needing to log in once scenario would work.
Re 3 - not sure about that yet - would have to look at both options in more detail. We have some other custom stuff built into the maintain user page in the portal
regards
Graeme
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