Hi Toby,

Michael is correct.  If you want a subfolder to do it's own authentication,
it must be an application.
You can certainly have web.configs in each of the folders, whether it's an
app or not, but there are certain sections that can only be put into an
application, such as authentication.  As you have found out, a web.config
that has one of these sections and is not in an application will cause a
config error.

Michael seems to have a good workaround for this, I encourage you to give
his approach a try.

Thanks,
Earl Beaman
Microsoft, ASP.NET

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