I have 2 folders under my application in IIS. When I right click on a file in folder 1 and click browse, I can see the file just fine (its a css file). When I do the same thing on a fie under folder 2 (also a css file). I get a
"ACCESS DENIED. It seems that you have tried to perform an operation which you are not permitted to perform.You cannot view this URL as a guest. You must login."
network traffic in IE and Chrome say 200.
Any help? I have no clue whats going on
SOLUTION
This is more of a I was dumb scenario as opposed to a solution. When the file was downloaded from a location to be moved into the folder, the file itself had the text "Access Denied....." in it. It had nothing to do with IIS. Once I fixed the download problem I got the correct file and moved it to the folder.
Is it possible that one of those folders is a virtual folder? If so then you need to set NT permissions for user running the application pool.
For example if your website and folder that works is under c:\inetpub\wwwroot\website1 but folder that doesn't work is a virtual folder under d:\some_other_folder\ then you need to open security settings for this folder and give permissions to system user running the application pool.
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I've got a strange issue - Up until now I've only worked on this application on a single machine. I've downloaded an asp.net web app onto a dev machine in a clients office.
When I try to run the application in debug mode through Visual Studio I get 500.19 error - typically this means a permission problem. I went through the motions of checking the permissions before I noticed the directory it was looking for the config file in.
The 'Config File' shown on the error is
\\?\C:\Users\{my-name}\Documents\{project-name}\web.config
however the correct location is actually
C:\Users\admin\Documents\projects\{project-name}\web.config
Does anyone know where the location of the web config is specified? I had always assumed it could only ever be in the root directory.
As it turns out the cause of this was upgrading to Visual Studio 2015.
Rather than a .suo file the new Visual Studio has a .vs folder with files specific to an instance of a project. The root directory of the development site is included in here.
I deleted the files and added .vs/* to my .gitignore file and had no more problems.
At our infrastructure it turned out that inside the web.config withing the node <system.webServer>, we had a nested node named <rewrite />. That one wasn't recognised by IIS.
By either removing that node or installing the missing feature (url-rewrite), the application started as expected.
In my case, the top level website in IIS had a physical path of:
C:\Users\MyUserName\Documents\My Web Sites
For some reason, this meant IIS refused to look anywhere else, even though my projects underneath had been converted to applications.
Fix for me:
Go to IIS
Right click on the top level website (i.e. 'Default Web Site', or the problematic website at the same level)
Select 'Manage Website > Advanced Settings'
Change the physical path to C:\inetpub\wwwroot
Save and reload website
I could then have any path for my applications and IIS could work it out as expected.
Assuming you mean Documents\projects\{project-name}\web.config instead of Documents\projects{project-name}\web.config you're seeing the effect of Application Scopes.
In IIS, multiple entirely separate web-applications can be part of the same website by being split-up into "Application Scopes" - which usually works by specifying a prefix path followed by the Scope root (prior to IIS7 an Application Scope could be a physical or virtual directory, since IIS7 they're always virtual directories, but can still represent a physical directory).
Open IIS Manager and select the (virtual )directory that Visual Studio created for your project and right-click it in the left-side Navigation pane and choose "Convert to Application", then ASP.NET will look for the web.config file (and the bin directory, amongst others) in this folder only, rather than the website root.
Note that the website root is also considered an application scope root, hence the common error message "Exception in "/" application". If you get a YSoD in another application root you'll see "Exception in "/subFolder" application" messages.
I have an ASP.NET application hosted on IIS. And have some html files in a folder under "c" drive on the same server. My application try to read those files and display some content from those files onto the webpage. But it seems like application is not able to read those html files. I have tried with all the permissions.
LIKE : giving that folder "Network service" "Network", "ISUR" full control permissions. But application is displaying
404 File or Folder not found error. Please suggest.
Thanks
Under file Properties > Security > Group or user names > make sure that user IIS_IUSRS has access to the file.
And remember that it's not a good practice to allow webserver to access files on C.
Webserver should be limited to inetpub.
I need to integrate a third party plugin in my asp.net website. To install the plugin, they have mentioned this sentence, "Create an application through your IIS control panel with root directory at -(some path from my website folder)?".
I am not much aware with IIS and rarely worked with it. Though I tried every possible way I could do in IIS, I am not able to work it out. After installation, there is a test page provided by plugin which I have to run to check but when I run it, it shows this error.
"It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS."
I searched this error too and found that it is because the two Web.Config file, one from the main project and another from plugin folder. The only way to work with this, is to make the plugin folder they specified as a root directory in IIS. Someone kindly tell me some easy steps to do this.
What I was doing is, in IIS6, I added New website with the main folder of my asp.net website, then I right click>add application and choose the given path, thought it would become root directory but it is not.
Help would be appreciated. Also note that, I have to put the plugin folder in my main website folder only. So, there are two web.config. I tried to rename one of them too, it solved the above error but gave another errors but I think main problem is of root directory. P.S they show me above error on web.config file of plugin folder on this sentence-
"Line 51:
< authentication mode="Windows" />"
Most of the times the root directory is C:\inetpub\wwwroot folder and "Default Web Site" on IIS Manager.
Open IIS Manager and under Sites there should be IIS websites and under it you will probably see Default website. You can see the root directory with Right click/Settings.
Copy your website files under this root directory.
And after copying folder to root folder you will see this folder under Default websites on IIS.
Right click your directory name on IIS and "Create Application", select correct .net framework.
It should be work. Good luck, if you need more help please give more details on your server IIS.
I create a web site that in Default web page of it i try to access to ServerIpAddress.txt file that is on server . now when i run my project on local host it work correctly , but when I upload it on Server(free host) i face with
error. can some one help me ?
You most likely do not have permissions access files on the shared server due to security issues. Consider moving data from that file to web.config app key.
or access the file as a relative path to your site. The remote sever will most likely not have the same folder structure as your local machine.
The account that is being used for the worker process of the web site has no (write)access to the file.
Configure the file (or folder) so that the ASP.NET process has access.
Another thing to look at is whether or not the path as stated in the code is the actual path on the server.
give full permission to ServerIpAddress.txt file. it will work.
Right click on content folder. Click Properties. Then from General tab uncheck the Read-only checkbox.
Then go to Security tab and Allow Write permission for your ASP.NET process.
Are you using a database? In that case how did you set up permissions for app_data folder? You have to set permissions in the same way.
If you are not able to do that, try moving the file inside of app_data folder and then check.
Right click on .txt file and select security and add network service .restart iis and try.It will work.
I have set up a simple virtual directory that contains common CSS style sheets and image files on a web site hosted under IIS 7.0 and I keep getting the NT challenge and response window when I try to browse to the web site.
How do I prevent this from happening?
Where does the virtual directory live and what are the NTFS permissions on it?
When IIS is installed the permissions on inetpub\wwwroot are set to allow IIS to access that directory, and any directories under it will inherit the permissions. I am guessing your virtual directory points outside of the normal web directories, and thus the NTFS permissions for the directory and the files within it exclude IIS.
To fix this open explorer and navigate to the directory above the directory your virtual directory points to. Right click it and view the properties and then select the security tab. You will need to Edit the permissions and, at a minimum, give the IIS_IUSRS group Read/Read and Execute/List folder contents rights. If your app pool is running as another user you'll also need to give that account the correct permissions.