I am running IIS 7 on Windows Server 2003. I am more of an Apache user, so please forgive me.
I need to password-protect a directory on my server to allow only one user to access it via http. A simple 401 challenge is fine.
I've googled this task and they all say to begin double-clicking the "IIS Users" icon in IIS manager. I launched IIS manager via RDP and do not see this icon. (see screenshot)
So how to proceed?
If the user existed, I know how to select the directory and allow access only to that user -- so the question is how to make this user.
You need to create the user under Computer Management and assign the permissions in Windows Explorer. All you would need to do in IIS is make sure you have Windows Authentication turned on, and Anonymous Authentication turned off. So, here's the steps:
Under Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management. Expand Local Users and Groups > Users > Right Click > New User.
Under Windows Explorer, navigate to the folder you want to secure. Right click on it > Properties > Security Tab > Edit > Add. Give your new user at least Read/Execute permissions to the folder.
Under IIS, expand on your website and select the folder that you want to protect. Then click the Authentication icon. Make sure Windows Auth is on and Anon Auth is off.
That should do it. Your browser should now give you the auth challenge when you try to browse to that folder.
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I'm setting up our server so we can install an ASP.Net web application on it.
I right clicked Sites in the IIS7 Manager and selected Add Virtual Directory and I clicked the Test Settings button, this messages is displayed:
The server is configured to use pass-through authentication with a built-in
account to access the specified physical path. However, IIS Manager cannot
verify whether the built-in account has access. Make sure that the application
pool identity has Read access to the physical path. If this server is joined to
a domain, and the application pool identity is NetworkService or LocalSystem,
verify that <domain>\<computer_name>$ has Read access to the physical path.
Then test these settings again.
The message does not tell us how to do any of these things.
The server I'm setting up has Windows7 Home Premium installed on it. The computer is set up with all defaults set and has a computer name such as MyComputer-PC (not the real name). There is no domain set up.
Can you tell us how to do what is described in the message?
1) Go to IIS, click on the IIS entry that holds your virtual directory. On the right click on Basic Setting to see which appliatino pool it's using.
2) Go to IIS, go to application Pools. Right click on your application pool and check the advance setting -> Identity property to find out which user it's using.
3) Go to the folder that your IIS Entry maps to, make sure that user is added to this directory. If you want to give it write permission, give it write. Otherwise, make give it read & execute is fine.
The message is pretty clear in what needs to be done. Go to the Application Pool section of IIS and open the advanced settings of the default Application pool. Check what username is specified in the Identity property.
Go to the location where you are physically storing your virtual directory and go to the folder properties -> Security. Ensure that the user has the appropriate access.
Basically, you can ignore this message if you don't plan to write files to your site directory.
This message means that IIS can't check if it's system windows account has enough permissions on your site folder.
I assume this is an IIS error, as this doesn't happen if I run the project on my local machine.
I have my stylesheets at ~/Content/css
Any files in that directory won't load on the page, and when I navigate to them directly, I get a server error:
401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials.
You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.
This only happens with that directory, I have no problem accessing any other files. Is there something I need to do in IIS7 to stop this?
Open IIS and select site that is causing 401
Select Authentication property in IIS Header
Select Anonymous Authentication
Right click on it, select Edit and choose Application pool identity
Restart site and it should work
It is likely that you do not have the IUSR_computername permission on that folder. I've just had a quick scan and it looks like you will find the information you need here.
If that isn't the case, are you prompted for your username and password by the browser? If so it may be that IIS is configured to use Integrated authentication only, as described here.
Open IIS
select site where you are facing the problem
Select Below
- Right click on Anonymous Authentication and click on edit and follow below
You do not have permision to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.
This happened despite the fact the user is already authenticated via Active Directory.
There can be many causes to Access Denied error, but if you think you’ve already configured everything correctly from your web application, there might be a little detail that’s forgotten. Make sure you give the proper permission to Authenticated Users to access your web application directory.
Here are the steps I took to solve this issue.
Right-click on the directory where the web application is stored and select Properties and click on Security tab.
Click on Click on Edit…, then Add… button. Type in Authenticated Users in the Enter the object names to select., then Add button. Type in Authenticated Users in the Enter the object names to select.
Click OK and you should see Authenticated Users as one of the user names. Give proper permissions on the Permissions for Authenticated Users box on the lower end if they’re not checked already.
Click OK twice to close the dialog box. It should take effect immediately, but if you want to be sure, you can restart IIS for your web application.
Refresh your browser and it should display the web page now.
Hope this helps!
You need to check the folder permissions on your server and check that the account that you are using to run your application has access to that folder.
For me the Anonymous User access was fine at the server level, but varied at just one of my "virtual" folders.
Took me quite a bit of foundering about and then some help from a colleague to learn that IIS has "authentication" settings at the virtual folder level too - hopefully this helps someone else with my predicament.
In our case it was Windows-integrated authentication specified in the app's web.config
BUT the windows-auth module was not installed on the IIS machine at all.
Just adding another possible reason.
Another simple fix I found was to delete the local IIS site (from within IIS Manager) and then re-create the virtual directory from the "Properties" of your web project in Visual Studio.
I want to know which account running my Web Service/Application so that I can assign the read/write access to that account. I have researched and see most of the sources mentions about ASPNET account, but on my 2008 server, there is not any acount named ASPNET. Some sources say ASPNET is being replaced by NETWORK SERVICE?
Also, can I assign to another user account to run the service? And how to do that?
Thanks,
Server 2008
Start Task Manager
Find w3wp.exe process (description IIS Worker Process)
Check User Name column to find who you're IIS process is running as.
In the IIS GUI you can configure your application pool to run as a specific user:
Application Pool
default
Advanced Settings
Identity
Here's the info from Microsoft on setting up Application Pool Identites:
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/624/application-pool-identities/
Look at the Identity of the Application Pool that's running your application. By default it will be the Network Service account, but you can change this.
At least that's how it works on 2003 server, don't know if some details have changed for 2008 server.
You are most likely looking for the IIS_IUSRS account.
I had a ton of trouble with this and then found a great solution:
Create a file in a text editor called whoami.php with the below code as it's content, save the file and upload it to public_html (or whatever you root of your webserver directory is named). It should output a useful string that you can use to track down the user the webserver is running as, my output was "php is running as user: nt authority\iusr" which allowed me to track down the permissions I needed to modify to the user "IUSR".
<?php
// outputs the username that owns the running php/httpd process
// (on a system with the "whoami" executable in the path)
echo 'php is running as user: ' . exec('whoami');
?>
You have to find the right user that needs to use temp folder.
In my computer I follow the above link and find the special folder
c:\inetpub, that iis use to execute her web services.
I check what users could use these folder and find something like these:
computername\iis_isusrs
The main issue comes when you try to add it to all permit on temp folder
I was going to properties, security tab, edit button, add user button
then i put
iis_isusrs
and "check names" button
It doesn´t find anything
The reason is the in my case it looks ( windows 2008 r2 iis 7 ) on pdgs.local location
You have to go to "Select Users or Groups" form, click on Advanced button,
click on Locations button and will see a specific hierarchy
computername
Entire Directory
pdgs.local
So when you try to add an user, its search name on pdgs.local.
You have to select computername and click ok,
Click on "Find Now"
Look for IIS_IUSRS on Name(RDN) column, click ok. So we go back to "Select Users or Groups" form with new and right user underline
click ok, allow full control, and click ok again.
That´s all folks,
Hope it helps,
Jose from Moralzarzal ( Madrid )
Using IIS 7.5, IIS_IUSRS is supposed to be the account to use. I get '401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials' error. If I add an EVERYONE account with Read, it works. But rather not have Everyone account. Any idea why IIS_IUSRS does not work? It has Read access. Anonymous Access=enabled. Specific User=IUSR
As a side, on the Basic Settings... for the site, Test Settings button says 'ok-on Authenticate' but Authorization 'cannot verify access to path'.
In IIS 7.5 this has changed from being an IIS_IUSRS account to being a user under the IIS AppPools top level windows group
if you create an application pool called
www.mysite.com
then the sites default created user account that it runs as becomes
IIS AppPools\www.mysite.com
Check the following Microsoft Doc under "Securing Resources" to see more
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/624/application-pool-identities/
Under the 'Securing Resources' section listed here:
Open Windows Explorer.
Select a file or directory.
Right click the file and select "Properties"
Select the "Security" tab Click the "Edit" and then "Add" button
Click the "Locations" button and make sure you select your machine. Enter "IIS AppPool\DefaultAppPool" in the "Enter the object names to select:" text box.
Click the "Check Names" button and click "OK".
Substitute DefaultAppPool with the name of the application pool you created/used when adding your site to IIS. This IIS AppPool (not IIS AppPools as of iis 7.5.7600 on Windows 7 pro) group is a group of virtual accounts that you will not see when performing a normal account search on your local machine or via a directory service.
I have authentication mode set to forms in my asp.net web.config but am still getting a windows login prompt when i browse to the website.
Could authentication mode be set elsewhere, in IIS for example? My site runs on IIS 6.
Thanks.
This could be because the permissions on the folder that is being served is not allowed to be accessed by the user running the web site
I have had issues where the authentication was set to forms and the directory security was set to allow anonymous, but some resources (images in my particular case) did not have the proper permissions to allow the anonymous user to read them.
The effect is that the user was prompted to login so that the graphics could be displayed, after which the form was displayed and the user logged in (again) with the intended form.
Sounds like windows permissions problem.
Windows permissions will always override anything that you have set up in aspnet.
I would start by looking at "anonymous access" permissions in IIS admin, then work your way through the file system.
You have configured anonymous access in IIS Administrator, but the IIS user does not have permission to access the filesystem, defaulting to the login dialog to authenticate as Windows user.
As it happens a colleague updated my machine to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 whilst I was away. So I compiled my project and released onto the server which does not have SP1 installed and the above happened.
I've installed SP1 on the server and it's working fine now.
Thanks for all your input.
Just to clarify : the login popped up because the application was unable to load a file due to the problem described in the following: Link