Using Microsoft Expression Web 4 to revise our intranet. I had to enable .shtml on the IIS server in order to be able to use server-side pages. Sorry, I'm a newbie and had to somehow make it work on a tight deadline. There' may be better ways of doing this and better, more up-to-date program than Expression, but this is the situation now...
So, I can edit the website just fine. In fact, I'm done and published it etc. Works great.
The problem is, another person who also was able to edit the same Intranet website, now can't do it. She has the same software, but it's getting an error, "Cannot open file XXX for writing" where XXX is any of the .html or .shtml pages, old ones or new ones. She just can't edit any of them. She started getting the error as soon as I was done publishing the changes (removed Flash and replace the main menu with a shared .html file called into every page, like <--#include file "\menu.html"-->) The files open OK, the shared menu is there, etc., and she makes the changes, but when she clicks Save, that's when she gets the error.
Any ideas as to what may be causing the problem?
I already had her try to edit one of the old pages I replaced. She can't edit those either.
This should be a problem caused by permissions. Find the folder where the file is located, right-click on it, check Properties -> Security, and ensure that the permissions of the two accounts are the same.
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I've set up a site in IIS and even though the permissions on the folder are correct I still get "500.19 Cannot read configuration file due to insufficient permissions". To make it simple I've set full control (it's only for local use) instead of the "correct" permissions and they are set for authenticated users, system, my user account, administrators, iis_iusrs and my app pool. I've got these exact same permissions set on another computer and browsing the site works like charm on that one.
If I choose to runt the app pool as LocalSystem instead of ApplicationPoolIdentity the site load but without any of the static content (images, css, scripts, etc.).
Any idea what might be wrong here? Seems like a lot of people out there are having the exact same problem but no matter how much I search and read up on it there is no solution to be found.
These problems can be tough to answer because so many different things could cause this. Many times more than one thing is wrong. However, there might be a simple solution.
If switching the app pool to LocalSystem works, that is a start. Regarding the subsequent problem, I would suggest checking the links in the webpage to be sure they are pointing to valid locations on the server. If so, and you are still having trouble, please reply with the version of IIS that you are using and the authentication method used for the site.
Tom answered this question in his comment above but I don't know how to mark a comment as a solution. This is what he wrote:
"It sounds like your static content files might not have inherited the permissions you've set on the parent folder. To blanket set the permissions on all files and folders, go to the folder properties of the parent folder, click the security tab and select advanced, check the Replace all child object permission entries with inheritable permission entries from this object then click Apply."
I hope you can help me, I have a website and constantly the .htaccess file is hacked to redirect to another page, every time I delete that file, when I check the file after 5 minutes, again the file is written to redirect to a page with malware, I changed passwords of sftp, the page itself and the database several times from different computers with windows and linux but this file is constantly changed in the main page and creating hacked .htaccess in the subdirectories, Why does this keep happening? HELP
The web page is hosted in Dreamhost.
If the permissions on your .htaccess file are set so that only you can modify it, then you will find one of the following:
An entry in your FTP access log showing .htaccess being uploaded
An entry in the control panel access log showing the .htaccess being edited
An entry in your HTTP access log at the time that the modification happens (often a POST, but not necessarily). This is often to a generalised backdoor process of some sort.
A crontab entry that makes this modification
Additionally, you will find that your site was hacked somehow - e.g. insecure version of JCE editor, poor passwords, nonumber extensions, flash uploader, failure to update for known security problems, or similar. It's all in the logs. You will also find that there are a stack of little PHP files or an extra admin account which will let the attacker back once you sort out the obvious part of the problem.
I've spent several hours trying to figure this out; hopefully, it's an easy solution and the difficulty is simply because I'm brand new to Orchard CMS and no where near an expert web developer...
I've created a Products Download page and need to insert hyperlinks to files that exist on the file system.
the path to the file (on disk) is : c:\Orchard CMS\Downloads\ProductOne\File1.zip
in the page editor, I insert a hyperlink reference with the following URL: /Downloads/ProductOne/File1.zip
When I hover over the hyperlink, it looks correct: http://localhost:12345/Downloads/ProductOne/File1.zip
However, when I click the link, I receive the following exception:
HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.
Any help would be extremely appreciated!
If you don't want to play with source code and web.config files you should use Orchard Media feature. It allows you to upload files into Orchard filesystem and manage those. Links to files uploaded this way look like http://www.myorchardsite.com/Media/[Media folder path]/YourFile.zip
If you are not an experienced developer, I'd strongly advise you to take this approach. The only drawback is that you'd have to reupload those files into Orchard. But this is not as bad as it looks - you can zip them and upload as a single file (Orchard will take care of unpacking the archive if you check the checkbox below upload field).
You need a web.config file that allows the files to be served. You can use one from one of the content directories that can be found in modules or themes.
When adding or editing a page in a SharePoint Pages library we get the following exception:
[COMException (0x81020016): Item does not exist
The page you selected contains an item that does not exist. It may have
been deleted by another user. Click "Home" at the top of the page to return
to your Web site.]
at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPrequestInternalClass.RenderColumn.
The weird thing is, when we first do "Check in" and then click the Publish button it works perfectly. But clicking "Publish" directly generates theis error, BUT NOT ALWAYS!
The Pages library has publishing and item planning on, NO workflow (seeing as the person who adds / edit pages is also the approver) and Major/ Minor versions.
We use a content type derived from publishing page and a custom PageLayout.
I'm sure you would have already checked this but is there any more information in the ULS logs?
Also have you tried setting the debugger to break on all exceptions and does this give you more information? Go to Debug, Exceptions and tick Common Language Runtime Exceptions. Then go to Tools, Options, Debugging and untick Enable Just My Code. Finally attach to w3wp.exe.
If you are running Windows Server 2008 you could also try taking a dump file at the point the debugger breaks above. ADPlus might help if you are running Server 2003 but I don't have experience with it. You should then be able to open the dump file with DumpChk or WinDbg.
Edit: As discussed in the comments, this is code deployed to production that can't have its service interrupted. The only way you could create a dump file is programmatically. Have a look at this question I asked that will hopefully help you if you need to go down this route.
Other things to try if you don't want to get down and dirty with debugging is to try deploying your custom bits to a clean server. See if you can still reproduce the problem or if it changes.
I am assuming that you are using load balancing with 2 web servers.
The fact that it does not happen always points to there being a difference between the servers.
There are then a few things that you could check:
Are all the versions and service packs are the same on both machines
Have any of the servers had beta software installed
Is your code the same on both servers
One thing you could do to test without taking the system down: Is to remove the first web server from the cluster see if the error occurs, then add it back and do the same thing with the second web server.
I'm making some changes to a legacy classic ASP application. I've made the changes locally, and now I want to copy the changed files to the server. At the same time, I need to download the Access database, add some fields to some tables, and upload it again. For this reason, I need to be able to stop visitors from modifying the database while this is happening.
My main question is, what is the best way to setup a quick "Down for Maintenance" page that will be shown immediately and no matter which page the visitor requests. The application is already established, so I'd rather an answer that didn't require me to rework the application's architecture.
My second question (maybe this should be a separate question):
Is there a better way to add fields to a db table than to copy it down, modify, and stick it up again? Please forgive if that's a dumb question - I'm new to ASP - new to Windows too.
I only have FTP access to the remote server.
Thanks.
two ways:
1
if you do a server-side include in every asp page you can do a response.redirect in that include to /upgrading.html
2
in global.asa you can do a response.redirect in the session on start event. THis is probably the best way. Will only work for .asp pages, not if the client comes to a .html page.
Do you have any control panel access to the site at all?
When I used to run a number of ASP Classic sites I often turned them off for the five minutes required to do what I needed.
Rude to do to your visitors I know.
As others have said you could redirect to a page, but that won't stop people visiting static content in html pages, but then that probably won't matter, at least it stops them making changes to the mdb whilst you download it.
It's a pity that ASP.net's app_offline.htm doesn't work for ASP classic.
Another option I used to use was to create a default.htm file that had the offline message, and the way IIS was setup default.htm overrode default.asp, so simply uploading default.htm changed the homepage. This of course doesn't stop anyone using any of the other .asp pages.
So no real answer! Sorry.
If you have just FTP access to the server (and no control over the IIS) just insert a response.redirect to the "down for maintenace" page in top of all the asp pages, and remove it when the update is completed.
The changes to the database can be performed with the ALTER TABLE statement.
With regards to the "Down Maintanance" page issue you can and taking mapache's idea a step further if there is an included file (for a header) in each of the pages you can put the Response.Redirect in that one file and upload that in place. This will avoid making changes to all pages.
Another option is to upload a temp html file which will be found first by IIS. In IIS you can set which page name.ext are looked for in a domain/folder. For example when you browse to www.example.com you don't specify the page you are looking for so it could load index.html or index.htm for example depending on setup. It will depend on your hosts configuration setup, but a bit of trial and error I'm sure you can find out which one they use. Common ones for IIS are default.htm, default.html, index.html and index.htm. You can then put it in each of the folders in the website (not ideal I know) and then carry out your maintenance.
When updating databases you can run a migration script, written in sql, to update the schema and data of the db. As you only have FTP access this will require some sort of page you can paste the sql into and run. This however opens security issues so downloading the db, making the changes and then uploading again is probably easier. In addition to doing it this way you can also save the file and you'll have a backup :-)
Hope this helps.
Better than an include file, just use the Global.asa.
In the Global.asa's Application_onStart, add
Application("Offline")= True
at the top of all of your ASP files, add
If VarType(Application("Offline")) = vbBoolean Then If Application("Offline") Then Response.Redirect "App_Offline.htm"
(The double-if gets around the lack of VBScript's short-circuit operators, and therefore any data type errors.)
You could even set the Global.asa code to
Set fso= Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Application("Offline")= fso.FileExists(Server.MapPath("App_Offline.htm"))
Set fso= Nothing
Which would enable the offline page if it exists, like ASP.NET. However, the application start code is only reparsed when the server is reset (using iisreset), or when the Global.asa file is modified, merely adding the App_Offline.htm will not be enough.
Add below code in web.config
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
And place app_offline under root folder. This will work.