www.mydomain.com working but mydomain.com is requesting a login...any idea why?

so, I've got a nopCommerce site at www.mydomain.com (using that as an example)

However, when I strip off the www part, and just go to mydomain.com, I automatically get redirected to mydomain.com/login?ReturnUrl=%2f

Any idea what is happening here? Feels like a configuration issue, but, I don't know what.

Thanks!

Chances are www version are not pointing to the same instance as non-www version. Need a check to find out the real reason though, it all depends on how your site is setup. :)

Thanks for the reply.

There is only 1 IIS site and only 1 nopCommerce store in this instance.

What should I look at?

I feel like I'm just missing a checkbox or a configuration option somewhere in nopCommerce.

Ok, so I just realized something.

If I use a browser where I am not logged in (I've gotten used to admin'ing the site). I'm always redirected to the login page.

So, nopCommerce is somehow requiring an account just to browse the site.

Is this a nopCommerce setting? or a Forms authentication setting in the web.config?

Thanks!

ok, to add even a bit more confusion to this.

Authentication is only required on "/" and "/admin".

An anon user can browse the rest of the site (for example the products, without logging in).

But, a login is required to browse the home page.

I just cannot find a setting that would require an account to view the home page.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

if anyone else runs into this, here is the problem.

I had a custom plugin, and the controller was decorated [AdminAuthorize]. Once that was removed, it fixed the problem.

Took longer to realize it was the plug-in, than to fix it.

Okay, haha. If it's a custom plugin, then only you can spot the problem. :D