Sitecore and public website FormAuthontication issue

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When open the sitecore portal and public website in same browser different tab I'm getting a "Application access denied." error (Below image). I found how it happens. First I log into sitecore portal and then I log into public website where both open at same browser. Then I click on sitecore tree item, it redirects to sitecore portal home page. (http://myWebsite/sitecore/shell/default.aspx)

In public website I used FormAuthontication cookie and server session to handle each user. But I figure out that sitecore also use that FormAuthontication cookie.

When I log into sitecore it will create FormAuthontication cookie. But I log into public website that FormAuthontication cookie get modified.

So, there is a conflict between this FormAuthontication cookie and sitecore redirect to sitecore home page. Is there's a way to handle this situation?

Error page

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1 Answers

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You're trying to have 2 different sessions that will use both FormAuthentication to the same domain in the same browser. This cannot work.

The simplest solution here would be to add another binding to your application, e.g. sitecore.myWebsite and

  • login to Sitecore back end using this binding (http://sitecore.myWebsite/sitecore/shell/default.aspx)
  • for the standard access to the site just use the http://myWebsite url.

If you're testing this locally, remember to add entry to your hosts file:

127.0.0.1 sitecore.myWebsite