So, I've been trying to give my web application read access to files in root/documents folder that I have created. I don't want the public to have access to this folder. Have managed to lock out public users through the documents folder authentication setting by disabling the anonymous authentication setting.
Having much larger problems giving the web app read access to files in that folder. Have added the apppool into the read folder permisions of the documents folder but still getting access denied messages.
Just wondering if there's anything else that may be affecting the applications access to the directory.
Try adding NETWORKSERVICE as a reader to the folder.
On the other hand, you can try using impersonation and give read access to impoersonated user.
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HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.
Error Code : 0x80070005
Config Error : Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient
permissions
When add new web application in IIS 7.5 and run it, this page shown to me, how to solve this problem win7 ultimate visual studio 2010
The message is clear.
Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions
How to solve it.
Every asp.net application is run under one pool assigned to it, and each pool is run under a specific account.
Open the IIS, locate the pool under which your app is try to run, see the user that is assigned to that pool, and give read permissions to that user on your full site directory tree.
Especial for the web.config
The web.config, its the configuration file that message says, must have (and) write permissions.
So you locate web.config on the root of your site, right click on it, go to permissions and give on the pool-user, the write capability. The pool user, is the user under the witch the pool is run, as I explain below.
More details
To been able to run a public asp.net site with IIS, each file on the directory must have permissions for two accounts.
One account that is permitted for public access, and the account that assigned to that application pool have.
To find/assing the first account you go to your iis site | Authentication | Edit, and see or change it as you see on that screen shot.
Now note that name and we going to find the user under with the pool run.
Go the your IIS Site and click on the Basic Settings to find the pool name, then go to the IIS | Application Pools and see the Identity column, and note the name of the user under the witch your site is run.
Now that we have the two users names we go to the root of the site and set the minimum of permissions that is the read as
Some Notes
If the IIS_Public_ACCESS_USER is not give read permission the site is run, but ask for password
On some directories you need and write permissions, if you let for example your users upload images, or keep on App_Data, some database files. Only for that directories you give and the write permissions to the IIS_POOL_USER.
Some directories, like the App_Data and App_Code have direct protection from asp.net and they not allow anyone from the client side to run or view whats is in there.
On the public directory that allow write access to your user add one web.config and totally disable all the running of asp.net files.
More to read for the directories that give write permissions I've been hacked. Evil aspx file uploaded called AspxSpy. They're still trying. Help me trap them‼
It looks like your IIS_User doesn't have the necesarry permissions to access your website in C:\Users....\Visual Studio 2012\Websites...
Also make sure your application is running the correct .NET version (2.0, 4.0, ...)
HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error
The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.
Error Code : 0x80070005
Config Error : Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient
permissions
When add new web application in IIS 7.5 and run it, this page shown to me, how to solve this problem win7 ultimate visual studio 2010
The message is clear.
Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions
How to solve it.
Every asp.net application is run under one pool assigned to it, and each pool is run under a specific account.
Open the IIS, locate the pool under which your app is try to run, see the user that is assigned to that pool, and give read permissions to that user on your full site directory tree.
Especial for the web.config
The web.config, its the configuration file that message says, must have (and) write permissions.
So you locate web.config on the root of your site, right click on it, go to permissions and give on the pool-user, the write capability. The pool user, is the user under the witch the pool is run, as I explain below.
More details
To been able to run a public asp.net site with IIS, each file on the directory must have permissions for two accounts.
One account that is permitted for public access, and the account that assigned to that application pool have.
To find/assing the first account you go to your iis site | Authentication | Edit, and see or change it as you see on that screen shot.
Now note that name and we going to find the user under with the pool run.
Go the your IIS Site and click on the Basic Settings to find the pool name, then go to the IIS | Application Pools and see the Identity column, and note the name of the user under the witch your site is run.
Now that we have the two users names we go to the root of the site and set the minimum of permissions that is the read as
Some Notes
If the IIS_Public_ACCESS_USER is not give read permission the site is run, but ask for password
On some directories you need and write permissions, if you let for example your users upload images, or keep on App_Data, some database files. Only for that directories you give and the write permissions to the IIS_POOL_USER.
Some directories, like the App_Data and App_Code have direct protection from asp.net and they not allow anyone from the client side to run or view whats is in there.
On the public directory that allow write access to your user add one web.config and totally disable all the running of asp.net files.
More to read for the directories that give write permissions I've been hacked. Evil aspx file uploaded called AspxSpy. They're still trying. Help me trap them‼
It looks like your IIS_User doesn't have the necesarry permissions to access your website in C:\Users....\Visual Studio 2012\Websites...
Also make sure your application is running the correct .NET version (2.0, 4.0, ...)
I recently started an Orchard-CMS website. That's a new CMS which uses ASP.NET MVC 3. http://www.orchardproject.net you can find more info.
It has to be really easy to install a theme. But everytime i try that, i get the error that the dependencies.xml file is not accessable. (Orchard needs the dependencies.xml file, to write the links to new theme's and modules)
My site is running on an IIS7 local machine and i granted all permissions to the ASP.NET user and the NETWORK USER. But i still have permission-problems, any ideas?
By default the IIS 7 application pools run under IUSR account, so you should grant this user the appropriate permissions. From security perspective it's good to create a new, separate account for each application pool and I'd advise you to do so. It'll also give you more fine-grained control.
Also, check whether the permission changes were correctly propagated to App_Data and App_Data/Dependencies folder and their content. If not, change permissions for Dependencies folder explicitly. I've noticed that sometimes they don't get propagated correctly if you change permission at the root level.
my website does not create files and I set asp.net to write to directory.
The account under which the website runs needs to have permissions to write files to the directory in which you want to write the files.
it could be two things. this access denied error, is it a 403: Access Denied error? If so your IIS setup isn't configured for anonymous users. If its not it could be the IIS user the site is running as doesn't have permissions to access the site's folder.
Double check these two things, if it's neither we can look at what else is happening. Things I try is can I server a static file, or is it just ASP.NET etc
Write access isn't enough to create files. Try giving full control to the ASP.Net user (Network Service ny default) to the temporary files folder you are trying to write to.
I am migrating some ASP.Net applications from IIS6 to IIS7 and all has gone well until now. I am trying to create several virtual directories on 1 server that will point to files on another server. In IIS6, all I had to do was make anonymous authentication use a user that had access to the files. In IIS7, I can't get it to work. I setup the virtual directory with the username and password but I get a 500.19 error "Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions". I can't imagine that I really have to put a web.config in a directory that just contains images and no application files. If I click on the directory in IIS Manager, I get that error about the web.config file on anything that I click on such as the Authentication section. Also, writing to files from the virtual directory seems to work just fine so I don't think there is anyway that I have an access problem. I have given the directory access to the IIS_IUSR group.
When using a virtual directory that's pointed to a UNC share, go to advanced settings for the virtual directory, then choose a specific user account that has the appropriate rights to access the folder.
It works for my virtual directory in my asp.net app that is pointed to a UNC share on a remote server.