Anonymous SharePoint 2010 Web Application prompting for credentials

Question

As there are so many articles published over the internet likely similar issue but none of them is useful in my case.

I have a public facing site and my I want to share only single page resides inside "site pages" library. for that, I have enabled Anonymous access to all the zones from CA and set Anonymous User's "Permission Levels" to Lists and libraries (inside SP site) and inside site pages library, restrict Anonymous users to View Items only.

Now I believe everything is ready to access the site from outside.

But when I access the site it asked for credentials though I don't have anything pending for approval.

I am also NOT using publishing portal so Limited-access user permission lockdown mode feature is not there and also I am using SharePoint 2010.

Once the user passes the credentials, the whole site is accessible. (I am using Alternate access mapping AAM) to access it publicly.

How to fix the mentioned issue, please suggest.

Answer 1

Finally, I have fixed the issue.

All the settings I have made for Anonymous access in SharePoint is correct, but the issue is with public IP mapping with the SharePoint site port.

Public IP mapping has been done in DNS which pointing to port 80 and my site port is different. after changing my extended (HTTP) web application port to 80 from IIS, it is now accessible to end users WITHOUT credentials.

I know it's a very silly mistake I have made!! but thank you, everyone, for your suggestions.

Answer 2

You have to give entire site for them to see pages. Otherwise they can only interact with list items and libraries (like submit form data, view form data, view list items populated in a web part etc.) My suggestion would be to move that page to it's own library or subsite, set unique permissions on that location then set anonymous permissions there.