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FormsAuthentication from non login page

I am trying to create a login system from a page other than login.aspx, as a matter of fact it is the home page itself. I know that this must be an easy question but ive been working on it for a little while now to no avail. I need to authenticate the user and redirect to a page. Simple. This is not the login.aspx page although there is this page available.

here is the code i am using to no avail, ive tried other things too but they didnt work either

If Membership.ValidateUser(txtUserName.Text, txtPassword.Text) Then

If FormsAuthentication.Authenticate(txtUserName.Text, txtPassword.Text) Then
Response.Redirect("~/Institute/MyInstitute.aspx")
End If

End If

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dtryon

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rodmjay

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Your code looks pretty good. For my scenerio where i still want the login.aspx to be the default login page, i needed to add the following code to enable the home page to use the redirectfromloginpage in the web config

<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="login.aspx"
defaultUrl="~/Institute/MyInstitute.aspx" /> <----- This is where the redirect will go if no request has been made
</authentication>

dtryon

Great! Glad I helped a bit. Glad you found an answer that solved the problem.

Davin