I have the same issue as you.

FF reports "The page isn't redirecting properly"

Hey MrBAMF, I solved my problem and I'm guessing it will solve yours too:

When a page gets loaded by umbraco, it checks the user's access to the page and logged-in status.
To verify that status and redirect if the user is not logged in: there is this if-statement in the umbraco.requestHandler code: 

 if (System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser() == null || !library.IsLoggedOn()) {
                        HttpContext.Current.Trace.Write("umbracoRequestHandler", "Not logged in - redirecting to login page...");
                        currentPage = umbracoContent.GetElementById(Access.GetLoginPage(currentPage.Attributes.GetNamedItem("path").Value).ToString());
                    }

 
library.IsLoggedOn() returns true, no problem there. Membership.GetUser() however keeps returning null and so each time we get redirected to the login-page.

The reason for this is the fact that the GetUser() method tries to look up a user from your membership datastore using the current HttpContext Identity username.
Now if you are using windows authentication and are using a domain, this username will look like this: domain\\username 

The problem is, in the autologon usercontrol, we are stripping the domain and slashes from the username and using that to create our new membership user.
That's why Membership will not find a user and hence return null.

In order to fix this, I commented out the following piece of code inside the autologon usercontrol:

            // stip the \ from the username if present
            if (username.IndexOf('\\') > 0)
            {
                username = username.Substring(username.IndexOf('\\') + 1);
            } 

From then on, the member gets created using the full windows username (domain\\username) and the Membership.GetUser() method will return the
correct user. 

Hope this was clear enough for you, let me know if you have any other questions!

WEN I TYPE MY URL IN BROWSER INSTEAD OF HOME PAGE A WINDOW SAYING AUNTHENTICATION REQUIRED IS LOADING. ANY ONE PLS HELP

Thanks Bart, just had the exact same problem

phil

i see what this fix is doing... but my autologin is still not working... what could i be missing?

my umbraco member gets created... but i cannot successfully view my protected page?

plus it would be great not to have all my members in one folder, but i guess they will never really be viewed ;)

Bob, if you can run this locally, within the domain you're using, try attaching the VS debugger...

I'd first breakpoint in the WindowsLogin control; if you're being thrown back to the login/error page, that control is failing to create the Umbraco member. It sounds like that's happening OK if you're getting members being created.

So, the request is getting authenticated OK, then it's back to ADRoleProvider.GetRolesForUser(username) to get the groups from AD and return them to Umbraco to check with the allowed groups. I'd suspect an LDAP permissions failure in UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity() - it's in a try/catch block that ignores any error, so you'll never see it...

Phil

Phil, i have it all working... well, sort of... the only thing that is not working is that if i protect a node and grant access for a group other than the main group that is working it fails, even though i know i am a member of that group. does that make sense?

Hmm, weird... I'd still be tempted to try debugging GetRolesForUser, and check the actual groupnames that you're getting back from LDAP.  Umbraco will show the configured group names (as roles) regardless of whether those groups actually exist, so it's possible there's a mismatch between the group names you're expecting and the ones you're actually getting.

Phil

Hi Guys,

I am using the FormsAuthentication in order to Login users and I am setting the member ID in the cookie, as follows:

FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(member.Id.ToString(), rememberMe);

The reason that I am not storing the email since user can change the email address.

Now When I tried the Umbraco Public Access Restriction, by roles, it is always redirect me to the login page.

Does anyone has an idea how can I override this since Umbraco is trying to get the User by Membership I think and it is return null.

Thank you for your help.

Kind Regards.

I cannot find this code in umbraco source code:

 if (System.Web.Security.Membership.GetUser() == null || !library.IsLoggedOn()) {
                        HttpContext.Current.Trace.Write("umbracoRequestHandler", "Not logged in - redirecting to login page...");
                        currentPage = umbracoContent.GetElementById(Access.GetLoginPage(currentPage.Attributes.GetNamedItem("path").Value).ToString());
                    }

I am using 7.2.6

How can I override this check because Membership.GetUser() I do not want to get the value from the current username stored in cookie since I will have the ID number of the user.

Thank you.

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