I've been using IIS since 1.0 and I've never had a problem with it but IIS 8.0 takes even the most trivial tasks and turns it into a nightmare. Whoever came up with the new GUI they introduced should be promptly fired.
All that I'm trying to do is password protect a directory. So I click on the directory, select Authentication, disable anonymous and enable basic authentication. The file/folder permissions already give my user full permissions to the content. However, the second I do this, I get this error:
404 - File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
It is "redirecting to /Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2Ftest
You can actually see this for yourself by going to www dot accurateimageinc dot com slash test
Does anyone know what is going on because I have searched and everyone makes this sound as easy as it always has been but the behavior is completely unpredictable.