I feel pretty ridiculous having to ask this stupid question but its been irritating me far too long.. I have a website that i want to use forms authentication. I have ran the aspnet_regsql and created all of the tables on my sql server with no connection problems at all. I have a connection string entry in my web.config named "mungyun_AionDawnConnectionString". I have used this connection string in my code to run queries with no problems at all. I have added the following to the web config to allow forms authentication <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms loginUrl="Login.aspx"