Redirecting to Login Page with Attribute Routing in MVC5

Question

I have the following:

    [Route("login")]
    [AllowAnonymous]
    public ActionResult Login(string returnUrl) {
        ViewBag.ReturnUrl = returnUrl;
        return View();
    }

However, when I navigate to any [Authorized] route as an unauthenticated user, I get navigated to /Account/Login, which is an invalid route thanks to me overriding it to login. How do I tell MVC5 to use the attribute routes when redirecting in this case?

In your web.config under `system.web->authentication->forms` there is an attribute `loginUrl` - what is that equal to on yours? — wal, Dec 12 '14 at 03:01
@wal - even if I change that from the default `Account/Login` to `login`, I get redirected to `Account/Login` — SB2055, Dec 12 '14 at 03:02
and when you navigate directly to `your-domain.com/login`? could you have left an `[Authorized]` attr on the controller or base controller? — wal, Dec 12 '14 at 03:04
/login works, I want it to redirect, just to /login, not the default Account/Login, because Account/Login does not work. — SB2055, Dec 12 '14 at 03:05
And even if I had, `[AllowAnonymous]` should negate that, no? — SB2055, Dec 12 '14 at 03:06
i am surprised you are redirected even tho you have changed `loginUrl` - what happens if you change loginUrl to something else, say something invalid like `~/doesnotexist` ? — wal, Dec 12 '14 at 03:11
@StephenMuecke - try overriding an MVC controller action with attribute routing, and then navigate to the default action's route, and you'll understand. — SB2055, Dec 12 '14 at 03:19
see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6447728/formsauthentication-loginurl — wal, Dec 12 '14 at 03:31

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 12 '14 at 03:34

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In Startup.Auth there is a setting I had to change:

            LoginPath = new PathString("/login"),

answered Dec 12 '14 at 03:34

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