Good afternoon gentlemen (and ladies). I'm having an IIS issue this week, and while the site in question is classic ASP I'm assuming the same might apply to .NET troubleshooting, so I figured I'd try a post here as this site has enough traffic to possibly solicit some answers. 8 hours of Google hasn't turned up anything helpful.
The issue: Recently we moved a large website to a new server, and I have been tasked with re-configuring some IIS settings to allow the site to function as it did previously. The site is run on Ektron CMS, which I fear might be related and I don't have any experience with that system. Anyway, the site is set for anonymous access but we have an admin section set to Basic Authentication for access to those with local accounts. Long story short, we pull back AUTH_USER from the server variables to store in a database for 'last modified by' reporting. No matter what I do in IIS and NTFS, ...
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