Everytime I try to add / update settings through the IIS 7 Manager I get the following error.
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit). I'm using a LocalSystem AppPoolIdentity
Check if web.config has read only permissions checked.
Make sure the web.config's Read-only FILE attribute is not checked:
This error can also happen if the hard drive has run out of space - i.e. there isn't enough space to write the to the config file.
Obviously this would have to be a very full drive, but I've seen this happen on servers where the log files are written to the C drive (and evetually fill it right up)
Make sure that the location of your webconfig file has the correct security permissions set. Normally giving the IIS_IUSRS group permission to the directory works.
Try the following:
Copy web.config file from original to alternate location, e.g.,
Desktop
Edit and save in alternate location
Copy back to original location
I do not understand why this works, but it did for me and apparently several other users.
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Dear community members,
We have three of same hardware Windows 7 Professional computers. No one of them is connected to a domain or directory service etc.
We run same executable image on all three computers. In one of them, I had to rename it. Because, with my application's original filename, it has no write access to it's working directory.
I setup full access permisions to USER group in working directory manually but this did not solve.
I suspect some kind of deny mechanism in Windows based on executable's name.
I searched the registry for executable's name but I did not find something relevant or meaningfull.
This situation occured after lot of crashes and updates of my program on that computer (I am a developer). One day, it suddenly started not to open files. I did not touch registry or did not change something other on OS.
My executable's name is karbon_tart.exe
When it start, it calls CreateFile (open mode if exist or create mode if not exist) to open karbon_tart.log file and karbon_tart.ini file.
With the files are exist and without the file exists, I tried two times and none of them, the program can open the files.
But if I just rename the name to karbon_tart_a.exe, program can open files no matter if they are exist or not.
Thank you for your interest
Regards
Ömür Ölmez.
I figured out at the end.
It is because of an old copy of my application in Virtual Store.
I have to edit a website on local server. I use Windows Server 2012 and IIS. When I try to save a modified file I only get "access denied" error. Do I need to shut down the server before making changes and then restarting it or am I missing permissions for example in the wwwroot folder for IIS_IUSRS?
I have never used WS2012 or IIS before.
You cannot edit files directly in the wwwroot. You need to copy the file/folder out of inetpub to make your edits then paste it back into the wwwroot. This is by design I am afraid.
I was able to do edits directly in the wwwroot files by creating a local user account for myself on the server and giving it FULL access (I am also in the Administrators group - but that was not enough to make it work), then setting the user full access on the SHARE I use to get to the server (via UNC path). Allows edits directly to my live site.
I have an asp.net project that I use for a couple different purposes. We have addresses that access the same virtual directory via different paths (use1.company.com and use2.company.com) I do not want to break the project up as they use similar functionality that seems redundant to have in two places. None the less as it stands use1.company.com/default.aspx and use2.company.com/default.aspx both are the same. I want to make it so that use2.company.aspx/default.aspx is not accessible. Is there a way to do that from the App Pool/Virtual Directory settings or do I just have to hope that external users dont type /default.aspx?
I know I can set the default document to like survey.aspx (purpose of the second url) but that does not prevent some savvy users from typing in default.aspx just to see what it does. Any assistance here would be great.
Since they point to the same .aspx file could you not include an if statement at the start of the file to grab the URL and if it includes use2 then go back?
I'm using multiple computers for development and I want to be able to store my files in my dropbox folder. I went to change the physical path in IIS from c:\inetpup\wwwroot to the dropbox folder but I get this error:
The requested page cannot be accessed
because the related configuration data
for the page is invalid.
I couldn't find the config file so I was wondering if anyone had done this before or whether there a better way to sync everything nicely across several PCs?
I tried it (IIS 7.5, Win 7) and it should work just fine to let your physical path of your web look at your dropfox folder. I would guess your web.config file generally contains malformed XML (see KB942055).
I'd suggest, try to map it to an empty folder just with an index.html file and see if this error still occurs.
As a workaround, I guess you can put Dropbox in your wwwroot folder and set up a virtual directory that points to Dropbox. However, there are some security issues that may hinder you from doing so. I come across a nice tutorial on how to set up Dropbox to IIS as FTP Publishing. Hope it helps.
Hodgin's guide on using Dropbox as FTP publishing.
AFAIK IIS restarts, whenever any of the web.config files is changed.
I've created my own configuration files (my.config, with slightly different hierarchy). Is there any possibility to have IIS automatically (automagically :)) restarted, whenever any of these are changed, too?
EDIT: I've considered filesystem watchers, but I'm not sure where to put them.
You mean to say that whenever you change my.config iis has to be restarted automatically.
Maybe you can write a batch file to perform your iisreset functinality alone if you dont want the user to manually restart IIS. But even if you give a batch file the user still needs to execute.
quick and ugly fix would be put config files in bin directory.
btw. I don't believe I am writing this ;)
these changes restarts web app:
* web.config
* machine.config
* global.asax
* Anything in the bin directory or it's sub-directories
copy/pasted from here Common reasons why your application pool may unexpectedly recycle
Use SomeAssemly.dll.config which will be put into ~/Bin, automatic be read on app (re)start and cause app restart on edit.
Note that App.config in project becomes $(OutputAssembly).config on build