ASP.NET MVC 5 (Visual Studio 2013 Preview) Change Login Url for [Authorize]

Question

Hey guys I started playing around with the ASP.NET MVC 5 preview and everything has been going fine so far (I can only recommend it).

However, I wonder where I can set the Login-Url for the Built-In [Authorize]-Attribute. I've moved the AccountController to a an area, so the path to the Login action is no longer /Account/Login but MyArea/Account/Login, which is ignored by the [Authorize]-Attribute, which in turn means, that whenever one navigates to a controller or action with the attribute set, one is redirected to the wrong path /Account/Login.

Answer 1

Look in web.config for a section like this:

<authentication mode="Forms">
  <forms loginUrl="~/Account/LogOn" timeout="2880" />
</authentication>

Change the loginUrl value to point to your updated login page.

Answer 2

When using the new OWIN forms authentication (as opposed to the old ASP.NET forms authentication), this gets set in the Startup class. In the default templates, it's in App_Start/Startup.Auth.cs in the ConfigureAuth method:

public void ConfigureAuth(IAppBuilder app)
{
   app.UseCookieAuthentication(new CookieAuthenticationOptions
   {
      AuthenticationType = DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ApplicationCookie,
      LoginPath = new PathString("/Account/Login")
   });
   app.UseExternalSignInCookie(DefaultAuthenticationTypes.ExternalCookie);
}