Issue with return URL Authorize issue MVC4

Question

I have written an application in MVC4 and deployed to the server.

I am having an issue whereby when a user tries to navigate to a url that has the [Authorize] attribute locally this redirects the user to.

/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fEvents%2fCreateEvent

However on the server I am finding that this is adding some extra characters to the start of the url?

/~/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2fEvents%2fCreateEvent

This is throwing a 404 exception due to the /~/

When the user is authenticated and navigates to Events/CreateEvent then this works correctly, however fails when they are not!

Does anyone know why?

Tom Styles · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-07 16:30:43Z

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Have you checked the web.config for the forms authentication setup.

Might look a bit like this.

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

Try removing the tilde ~

answered Oct 7, 2013 at 16:30

Tom Styles

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