Hello Folks,

I've been tearing my (greying!) hair out over this all day long. I've just moved a new site for a local authority onto their (what will eventually be) live server. Everything works perfectly... until I try to restrict access to the whole site by using Public Access settings on the home node.

I have a Member set up, login & login-error pages all written and working perfectly on my localhost development machine. Now when I try to log into the new site I simply keep getting told I'm not logged in. It doesn't take me to the error page, and indeed in the logfile I get this:

2016-08-08 14:52:01,934 [P2256/D24/T13] INFO Umbraco.Core.Security.UmbracoMembershipProviderBase - Login attempt succeeded for username tempwebadmin from IP address xxx.xxx.xxx28.163

Any light you kind folks can shed on this odd behaviour would be most appreciated! My server is 2012 r2, SQL2008, .net 4.5 is installed, Umbraco version 7.4.3.

Here's my login page (I also have the additional @Html.RenderJsHere() in my master-page in the correct place) which works locally but not on my new server

    @inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@using System.Web.Mvc.Html
@using ClientDependency.Core.Mvc
@using Umbraco.Web
@using Umbraco.Web.Models
@using Umbraco.Web.Controllers

@{
    Layout = "template_Master.cshtml";
}


        <!-- main -->
        <main role="main">
            <div id="main-container">
                <div class="main wrapper clearfix">
                    <div class="content clearfix">
                        <article role="article">
                            <!-- article header -->
                            <header>
                            <h1>@Umbraco.Field("pageName")</h1>
                            </header>
                            <!-- article header -->

                            <section>

                                @Umbraco.Field("bodyText")


                                @{
                                    var loginModel = new LoginModel();

                                    Html.EnableClientValidation();
                                    Html.EnableUnobtrusiveJavaScript();
                                    Html.RequiresJs("~/umbraco_client/ui/jquery.js");
                                    Html.RequiresJs("~/umbraco_client/Application/JQuery/jquery.validate.min.js");
                                    Html.RequiresJs("~/umbraco_client/Application/JQuery/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js");

                                    if (Members.GetCurrentLoginStatus().IsLoggedIn)
                                    {

                                        @Html.Raw("<p>YOU ARE LOGGED IN!<p>");
                                    }
                                    else
                                    {
                                        @Html.Raw("<p>YOU ARE NOT LOGGED IN!<p>");
                                    }
                                }


                                @* NOTE: This RenderJsHere code should be put on your main template page where the rest of your script tags are placed *@


                                @using (Html.BeginUmbracoForm<UmbLoginController>("HandleLogin"))
                                {
                                    <fieldset>
                                        <legend>Login</legend>

                                        @Html.ValidationSummary("loginModel", true)

                                        @Html.LabelFor(m => loginModel.Username)
                                        @Html.TextBoxFor(m => loginModel.Username)
                                        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => loginModel.Username)
                                        <br />

                                        @Html.LabelFor(m => loginModel.Password)
                                        @Html.PasswordFor(m => loginModel.Password)
                                        @Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => loginModel.Password)
                                        <br />

                                        <button>Login</button>
                                    </fieldset>
                                }

                            </section>
                            <!-- article footer -->
                            <footer>
                                @Html.Partial("partialView_DateUpdate")
                            </footer>
                            <!-- article footer -->
                        </article>
                        <!-- page support -->
                        <aside class="page-support clearfix">
                            <!-- page support nav -->
                            @Html.Partial("partialView_PageSupportNav-Problem")
                            <!-- page support nav -->
                            <!-- page support forms -->
                            @Html.Partial("partialView_PageSupportForm-Problem")
                            <!-- page support forms -->
                        </aside>
                        <!-- page support -->
                    </div><!-- #content -->
                    <div class="related-content">
                        <aside>
                            <!-- related links -->
                            @Html.Partial("partialView_RelatedLinks")
                            <!-- related links -->
                        </aside>
                    </div><!-- #related-content -->
                </div><!-- #wrapper -->
            </div><!-- #main-container -->
        </main>
        <!-- main -->