How To Auto-login Using ASP.Net FormsAuthentication

For our demo website, demo.quickpm.net, I need to have a default automatic login. Using the ASP.Net Membership and FormsAuthentication an easy way to do auto-login is the following code

string userEmail = "john.doe@gmail.com";
string password = "thepassword";
if (Membership.ValidateUser(userEmail, password))
{
      FormsAuthentication.SetAuthCookie(userEmail, true);
      Response.Redirect("~/");
}

The above code assumes that “john.doe@gmail.com” is a user and “thepassword” is their password.

Mono Asp.Net MVC and Nginx

I’ve been using Mono ASP.Net for a while with Nginx as the server. I recently started playing around with ASP.Net MVC and discovered that it doesn’t play nice when using Nginx as the server. To make ASP.Net work with Mono and Nginx you need to download the Mono source from here. And then modify the file mcs/class/System.Web.Routing/System.Web.Routing/Route.cs
in particular comment out the following lines in the GetRouteData function

if (pathInfo != String.Empty)
throw new NotImplementedException();

If you comment out the above two lines your MVC website should work just fine when hosting it using Mono and Nginx. I don’t know if there are any negative consequences for commenting out the above two lines but I have not encountered any.