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While configuring sharepoint server 2007 for form based authentication, I have came across a lot of issues. One site that was really helpful while configuring was:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/FBA.aspx

After going through all the steps, whenever I try to access the site that was configured for form based authentication. The page just refereshes to itself and do not produce any errors. I read through a lot of blog items to find the result but none of them worked for me. 

While trying different options, I came to know that the user provider database which contains all form users should have a windows local account in order to access the users. Once I had configured that, the login page started functioning

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