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I have one internet publishing SharePoint Site.
For example i have my site:
https://*****/products/pages/default.aspx when i removed default.aspx from URL in browser it shows authentication for user shown in pic ,
here i required instead of show login prompt how to redirect to home page of site?
Hi @adil ,
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check in Site settings > Welcome page whether default.aspx page (it's full url) is set as default page for the site
Hello @adil ,
This may be because your Home page URL link contains /default.aspx
Pelase follow steps:
1.Check the Welcome Page URL
Go to SharePoint site's Site Settings >> Welcome Page >> check the URL of Welcome Page whether includes /default.aspx ？
2.Change Home page using PowerShell:
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell –ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
#Variables
$WebURL="http://intranet.crescent.com"
$HomePageURL="SitePages/Home.aspx"
#Get the Web
$web = Get-SPWeb $WebURL
#Change Welcome page
$RootFolder = $Web.RootFolder
$RootFolder.WelcomePage = $HomePageURL
$RootFolder.Update()
$web.Dispose()
You could refer to the following article to learn more information:
Have a nice day!
Thanks,
Echo Du
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Hi there is already home page set in welcome page settings, what i want is authentication prompt should not show to user when anybody remove page name from url like i said above
Hi is there any option for URL rewrite from IIS?
if any request will come to for example
https://mywebsite/products/pages/
https://mywebsite/news/pages/
https://mywebsite/company/pages/
redirect to
https://mywebsite/products/pages/default.aspx page
Hi @adil ,
You only need to turn off one feature to solve your problem
Please follow steps:
1.Sign in the SharePoint site collection as an administrator >> Site Settings >> Site Colllection features >> find the "Limited-access user permission lockdown mode" feature >> click on Deactivate
2.On the jump page, click the "Deactivate this feature" link
3.Close the browser and new incognito windows to reaccess the page.
4.When your delete default.aspx, the browser will not prompt authentication.
Thanks,
Echo Du
HI My requirement is login prompt should not show to anonymous users and also anonymous users should not view any pages library and _layouts folder pages.
just i want to redirect to home page instead of showing login prompt because this site is published to internet and for security reasons (possibility to brute-force-attack for example) we don't want to show login prompt to users
Hi @adil ,
SharePoint does not support such design solutions.
By design, due to SharePoint own security considerations, even if you enable Anonymous Access, anonymous users can not view any pages library and _layouts folder pages. So the system will display the authentication popup to anonymous users.
It is worth noting that once you deactivate the "Limited-access user permission lockdown mode" feature. It is very unsafe at this time because anyone can view all the content on the site collection. In other words, the site collection is fully transparent.
Thanks,
Echo Du
Hi if authentication popup to anonymous users will not make any security concerns that like brute-force-attack from internet ?
Hi @adil ,
By design, SharePoint will pop up authentication Box when anonymous users access the application-level pages (Pages Library and _layouts folder pages).