Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server

Steps to configure Form based authentication in MOSS 2007:

Creating the SQL database
Creating the users in SQL database
Creating two sharepoint sites (one is web application and other extending the web application)
Configure membership, role provider and connection string in both web.config files of the Sharepoint site
Configure authentication type in central administration

We will discuss all the above point [...]

Create a web application on port 5 (not only on 5 you can chooose other ports too)
Extend the web application on to port 6 (which was created on port 5)

copy & paste the below tags exactly after machinkey tag (<machineKey validationKey=”7B896F9AC751CE89F7EEB83E766CF6004D42A26DB9C26C95″ decryptionKey=”2DB30482C44B8B6EE13444509E5243E761241B67209B6FF2″ validation=”SHA1″ />)
<membership defaultProvider=”LDAPMember”>
<providers>
<add name=”LDAPMember” type=”Microsoft.Office.Server.Security.LDAPMembershipProvider, Microsoft.Office.Server, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71E9BCE111E9429C” server=”fivenumber” port=”389″ useSSL=”false” userDNAttribute=”uid” [...]