ASP.Net MVC identity infinite redirect loop

Question

I have an ASP.Net MVC5 application, using the Identity \"out of the box\" template, as per ASP.Net Identity 2.0.0. I need to upgrade it to use the newer code that is in the

Answer 1

Resolved... turns out the culprit was my Unity DI configuration.

I drilled deep to find the errors getting recursively thrown on each redirect, and it suggested the AccountController dependencies weren't being instantiated. I had a similiar issue last year Unity Container trying to resolve non registered type, throwing error , and so I looked further into the changed dependencies.

Following the suggested answer at Register IAuthenticationManager with Unity resolved the issue.

Thanks for the suggestions re: SSL / HTTPS / Filters, investigating these led me to the exceptions.

Answer 2

Do you have SSL setup locally? Are authenticating on HTTPS then being redirected to HTTP which is killing the cookie & redirecting back to the HTTPS login page

Have you got something in the web.config for forms authentication redirect like

  protection="All" requireSSL="true" loginUrl="~/Account/Login.aspx"

Do your cookies look ok?

Answer 3

I also face this same issue before and solve by adding this line in web config

<add key="owin:AutomaticAppStartup" value="false"/>

It will disable OWIN startup discovery.

I hope it will work.

Also check in the IIS virtual directory. Check that anonymous user is enable or not, if disabled then enable it and problem will be solved.

Answer 4

I think your login action is missing [AllowAnonymous] attribute.