I have in my application a folder where I save files uploaded by users. This folder needs write permision for the apppool user. Untill now I did it manualy.
My question is, if this could be done somehow automatic ? Maybe running some script after deploy or something like this.
I have not tried this out myself, but it seems as if you could do this with the deployment package stuff in vs2010:
http://leethams.wordpress.com/2010/06/12/modifying-directory-permissions-with-web-deployment/
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i know that people couldn't say that this is trivial, but i have search for days in internet and can not be able to do this.
i am using visual studio 2010 ultimate and have created my setup with setup and deployment of vs 2010.the problem is that i have an application folder which contains my database and which is deployed with my application. When i deploy it in administrator part of computer, all is correct, i devined that it is due to fullcontrol permission of administrator programfiles folder.But when i deploy it in another account, application don't has access to database for writting. i looked for the web site and understood that this is due to programfiles folder permission for others users.So i decide to do another research in order to give more rights to users for this folder.
I finally understood that i can achieve this with authoring tools like robocopy by using custom action or with a command line by just correctly write my custom action. After more researchs, i understood that i can do it with a command line which use robocopy and give folder permission during installation for this custom action or only with custom action.
for custom action, i tried many links, but the best link that i obtained was (How to give Read/Write permissions to a Folder during installation using .NET) without success (i change /folder="[CommonAppDataFolder][ProductName] with /folder="[CommonAppDataFolder][Manufacturer][ProductName] in customactiondata" due to the fact that product name is in my manufacturer folder").i don't understand why this code don't change folder permissions during installing and don't know how i can use robocopy or icalcs in custom action to change folder permissions during installation. my setup and others requirements have been packaged with dotnetInstaller, i dont know if i can be able to continue use it.
please, i greatly need your help to be able to do this
i have solved the problem. After many trying, i understood that i was giving permission to the wrong folder because my documents and database were contained in programfile folder. after understand this, i only change the place to set permission by :/folder="[ProgramFilesFolder][Manufacturer][ProductName]" and permission have been setted.
For some reason my admin screen just hangs with some javascript errors. I have it installed on xampp on windows 7 ultimate 64bit. What could be causing this? Ill post a screenshot of the errors any help would be nice! p.s. This is my first time installing silverstripe ever so be nice. :)
This sort of things usually occurs when combined asset files cannot be created. Make sure the web server user has write access to the assets/ and assets/_combinedfiles folders, then go to your-site.com/admin/pages?flush=1.
Alternatively, since this is a local install, run in dev mode. There are instructions in the documentation on how to set this.
As indicated by #simon_w, this issue occurs due to the folder permissions:
In your local environment, in addition to the way via yml config, you can just put the following in _config.php inside mysite folder.
Director::set_environment_type("dev");
In dev mode, the installation doesnt need to write to assets/_combinedfiles. However, you had better have write permission for assets folder anyway.
So, just increase permissions for assets and directories under it. Uploaded files are also stored there, if not sufficient permission, you can't upload files from the admin panel. Other functionalists may also be affected.
I have one server that works (that I originally remember took me a loooong time to figure out--dont remember solution). I copy the exact same permissions to the new server, and it does not work. 'Everyone' is given total permission.
I have given permissions to _IUSR, IIS_USR, and Everyone., yet I still have errors with PHP trying to write/modify files.
Whats up?
You didn't mention IIS version you are using and what's application you are trying to run on top of it - these would be helpful to get a proper answer.
Looking at account names you mentioned you are running IIS 7.x... If you are running app which requires some fancy permissions config on its folders and files just try to temporarily grant full access to Everyone and IUSR from the top of app folder (overwriting everything below it) just to verify that this is permissions problem indeed.
How can I mklink to a file share so that a web can save uploaded files to it?
My web and file servers are both apart of a workgroup. I don’t care about security and do not want a domain solution.
Originally, I had AWeb with subfolder: Work folder and it’s subfolders with modified permissions for IIS_IUSRS and my AppPool Indentity set as NetworkService... and it works great.
Now, I want to replace the Files folder with a symbolic link to a file share.
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\AWeb\Work\Files
From elevated prompt:
mklink /d “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\AWeb\Work\Files” “\\FileServer\Files”
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\AWeb\Work\Files
This works under my account, but not for NetworkService account. How can I get this to work? I’ve tried some of the solutions in forums like elevating the prompt to administrator then to system using psexec.exe but still no go.
How can I log or check what’s really happening when I get the error that access is denied?
How can could I set the file share access for an account like NetworkService when I have no idea what the password is?
Looks like the best way is to setup iSCSI target and initialator. But would still like to try without.
I have a ASP.NET application that we've written our own logging module for.
My question is, where is the standard place to write a log file to? I.e. the website will be running as the anonymous user identity (e.g. IUSR on IIS7) and I need a place where I know it'll have permission to write to.
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App_Data folder on the root of the project. It isn't served to web requests; so other people can't snoop for it.
I would suggest putting the log file onto a seperate disk, though should give you a little performance gain so that your not trying to both read and write to the same disk as the website. If you cannot put the log file on a seperate disk, then I would simply choose a folder of your choice.
In any case, you will have to give the "Network Service" account "Modify" permissions to the desired folder.
If on the other hand, you have access to a databse, then log the information there. It will be much quicker than accessing the hard drive and won't be publically available. You'll also be able to report from the data quite easily.
I'm not in a position to modify the permissions on folders (especially outside of the virtual directory home folder), and don't already have an App_Data folder, so am a bit hesitant to go with that.
So for the moment I'm going with the CommonApplicationData Folder.
On Vista/Server 2008 this is C:\ProgramData\
On XP/Server 2003 this is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\
I'm not in a position to modify the permissions on folders (especially outside of the virtual directory home folder), and don't already have an App_Data folder, so am a bit hesitant to go with that.
If you have a website, you clearly have a folder somewhere. Can you not add a (non-web-facing) subfolder? It seems like that would be a more appropriate place to put your logs than dumping them into a global, shared folder.
You could also log to the Windows Event log or to a table in a database. How often are people looking at the event log? If it's being examined on a regualr basis, writing to a table amkes the reporting back much easier as it's trivial to reverse the order and only show the last X events for the current time period. The Windows Event log you can also query the Windows Event Log through PowerShell or with LogParser.
Push the app_data is the best idea, just bear in mind, when the publishing the projects, if the option "Delete all existing files before publishing" is ticked, then the current data in the folder will be gone. The workaround is to skip the deletion of app_data folder.
Another option to do logging is to use some existing framework such as Log4net.