Forms Based Authentication ( FBA) in WSS 3.0 / MOSS 2007

posted by  jhorra (5)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

1. Configure SharePoint Central Admin 

• Login to SharePoint Central Admin


• Go to Application Management / Application Security / Authentication Providers and Change the Web Application to the one which needs to be configured for Forms Based Authentication


• Click zone / default, change authentication type to forms and enter ActiveDirectoryMemebershipProvider under membership provider name ( for example , "ADMembershipProvider") and save this change

2.Update the web.config of SharePoint Central admin site