ASP.NET MVC3 and Windows Auth on IIS keeps redirecting to /Account/Login

Question

I\'m running MVC3 and a windows auth web application. When I deploy to IIS6 it runs great until I hit a page that requires authentication. It then is auto-redirecting to /

Answer 1

I had the same issue in my MVC4 project, only my project has Anonymous Authentication disabled outright, so Windows Authentication is always required.

I have no WebMatrix.* in my bin folder, and adding the autoFormsAuthentication and enableSimpleMembership keys to appSettings didn't do it for me.

Instead, I had to comment out the following:

And replace it with this:

That did the trick.