Anonymous authentication in mvc 5 project not working on production server

Question

I am trying to authenticate Anonymously in my mvc 5 project, it seems to work fine in my local host, but after deploying to production server, it does not see see the anonymous authentication tag in web.config file, i am having this error: Object reference not set to instance of an object, meaning the Request.Anonymous field is null, i dont know how to get this work in mvc 5 e-commerce site on production, i will appreciate any help. Thanks.

Here is my code: I added this line of code to the config file inside system.web

<anonymousIdentification enabled="true" cookieless="UseCookies" cookieName=".ASPXANONYMOUS" cookieTimeout="4320" cookiePath="/" cookieRequireSSL="false" cookieSlidingExpiration="true" /> 

And this is how i reference it in my code behind:

var getRecord = (from u in db.ShoppingCarts.Where(x => x.CartSessionID.Equals(Request.AnonymousID)) select u).ToList();

Answer 1

You just have to change your authentication setting in IIS

Enable Anonymous Authentication which will automatically change your web.config

Hopefully this will help you ..