Hi everybody,

I have a subfolder on my website. The subfolder is not a virtual directory. I want access to pages in this subfolder to be authenticated using Forms. I included location clause in my web.config and I thought it was working in .NET 1.1 (although it has been a while since I used in in 1.1).

Now, after updating the site to .NET 2.0, I get the following error on the authentication mode line when running a page in the subfolder:

It is an error to use a section as allowDefinition='MichineToApplication beyond 
application level.  This error can be caused by a virtual directory 
not being configured as an application in IIS.

Note that the subfolder was never a virtual directory (even in .NET 1.1) and from my memory it worked. And I cannot make this subfolder a virtual directory (rule of the hosting site).

Here is the section of the web.config:

	<location path="mysubfolder" >
		<system.web>
			<authentication mode="Forms" >
				<forms name="MyApp" path="/" loginUrl="AppLogon.aspx" />
			</authentication>
			<authorization>
                              <deny users="?" />  
			</authorization>
		</system.web>
	</location>

Any suggestions to what I might need to change in the web.config?

Thank you