I got a problem with IIS. I am trying to host application from UNC path, but I get errors - that it can't load assemblies from bin folder.
Is there something tricky I am missing or it just can't be done? I am providing all the credentials needed in Physical Path Credentials, I also tried running the application pool as the allowed user, but it seems the problem is different..
PS: I am running .NET 4.0
Running an IIS app from a UNC is generally not a good idea for both security and reliability reasons, however the Running “partially trusted” .NET assemblies from a network share question here on stackoverflow will probably help you.
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I have Visual Studio 2013 and a pretty basic MVC web application.
When I am connected to my work network (hard wire or VPN) I can open up VS without issue. However when not connected to my work network I get the following error:
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Creation of the virtual directory http://localhost:54156/ failed with the error: Unable to access the IIS metabase. You do not have sufficient privilege to access IIS web sites on your machine.
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OK
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I've tried granting my user rights to IIS via the aspnet_regiis -ga mydomain\myuser and that did not help.
I am certainly running VS as an administrator. It works just fine when connected to the network. Our security and server teams do not seem to understand why this would behave this way.
Is this IIS Express? I (and those I work with) often get a similar error due to the domain login script encrypting My Documents. It's fixed by simply decrypting
Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config
Not sure if that's the issue here though;
Ultimately I believe this to be an issue between our network policies and the IIS and .NET installs.
When I was off network it could not access the cached user folders. Switching from having the home drives on network to having them local did not fix the issue (assuming some files were still referencing the network location).
I had my system refreshed and started with my user folders as local and have not had the issue since.
I know it's an old question, but at my location the user profile is stored on the network. When I checked to see if the IISExpress application was encrypted as Chad Schouggins suggested, I didn't even have a documents folder. Ultimately, the answer was really simple:
turn the machine off and back on again.
I have set two websites in my IIS 8.5. I have one for production version and one for development (need this for the team work purposes). The structure is simple. Website is simple static page using BackboneJS and API calls to get all the data. All virtual paths and applications were set at the beginning manually by my self. For some reason some API calls didn't worked in dev site. I found out the physical path to the API project has changed. Do you have any idea, where can be the problem? Actually some of my collegues face this issue too.
Only think that cames to my mind is that when bdebugging the API, I use "Attach to process" in Visual Studio, where I connect to the correct IIS process - w3wp.exe with user name IIS APPPOOL\Dev or IIS APPPOOL\Prod according to the site I'm debugging.
Nevertheless I don't think the path should change itself. Where can be the problem? Does anyone have any idea how to prevent this strange behaviour?
I've got a VirtualBox VM running Windows Server 2008 R2. The server is configured as a domain controller.
I've got source code on my web application on the host machine. I shared a folder to the guest VM that contains the source code. I configured an IIS application on the Guest machine and pointed it to the share (\VBOXSVR\code).
When I run the application, I get the following message:
Module: IIS Web Core
Notification: BeginRequest
Handler: Not yet determined
Error Code: 0x80070001
Config Error: Cannot read configuration file
Config File: \?\UNC\VBOXSVR\code\web.config
I've verified that the user account the app pool is running under can access the Share. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I had a very similar issue when setting up a vagrant box for Windows 2012 R2 with IIS for development purposes. From what I remember I was able to use the following as a workaround, but not something I would want to implement in a production environment:
Make C:\vagrant a network share and set the permissions to be
accessible by the user running IIS \\localhost\vagrant.
Set the webroot for site to be the network share \\localhost\vagrant
In theory the following may work for your situation:
Create a symlink to the network share, IE: mklink /j "\\VBOXSVR\code" C:\code\
Make C:\code a network share accessible by IIS, \\localhost\code
Make sure the user running IIS will have permissions to the network share
Set the webroot for the site in IIS to the network share, \\localhost\code
(Optional) I added an entry into the host file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\host) for localhost. This appeared to improve performance, but it should not be necessary.
Hopefully this will point you in the right direction.
There seems to be an issue with the way Virtualbox shares the folders between Host and Guest. As I discovered when doing this with a Vagrant setup, if you manually create a UNC share on the Host, connect to that share on the Guest and point IIS at it things go along smoothly.
Note that if you are using Application Pools you should ensure the user assigned to the pool can access the share.
If you want to see what a couple of Powershell scripts looks like to automate the process, take a look in the scripts dir of https://github.com/mefellows/vagrant-smb-plugin.
Alternatively, you could use the rsync synced-folder type which has the advantage of much better performance. You could create a local Windows VM with Packer (example templates).
After spending a couple of hours on this issue I finally managed to make it work. Configure your application pool identity to Guest user. If you do this everything will work as expected.
I have a setup in which the host os has the code and a virtualbox vm with IIS configured served that code from a shared folder (vbox shared folder). Everything works as expected.
I have a deployed a web application in IIS. Which used to work without any issues. Recently i have shifted that web application to another machine, Here is the problem. Once i setup the Webapplication when i opened the default document in IIS im getting the File not found error as following
Internal Server Error
\?\C:\inetpub\wwwroot\application\web.config
I have no clue why the IIS is not able to find the web.config. The file is present in the path C:\inetpub\wwwroot\application\web.config but the IIS is looking in the path \?\C:....
Please let me know how to resolve this??
Firstly this is documented on support.microsoft.com so I would suggest that anyone who has this issue read this first as it covers a number of solutions which I won't
Now from personal experience I encountered this error after setting up a new development machine. What I had forgotten to do was install the Url Rewrite 2.0 IIS module. Sadly the IIS error gives absolutely no idea that this is the actually issue.
Therefore to solve this issue investigate the system.webServer setting in our web.config and ensure that you have installed all the iis modules that you use. I did this by systematically removing elements from my web.config until I came across the cause.
In my case, I was running ASP .NET Core website so I had to install .Net Core Runtime from
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/current/runtime
I know it's old post but I resolved the same issue as follows:
If you are using TFS and you are getting this problem then Reason is ".vs" file is not excluded from commit.
Because of that ".vs\config\applicationhost.config" gets the local version of another user/Developer.
To Solve the error, First open that file Update Physical path inside "" xml tag.
Also ask user to exclude this folder from TFS to prevent future issues.
If you are getting mysql localhost error. What I will do will work for you.
Control Panel(View by: Large Icons) >> Programs and Features >>
(Usually upper left corner) Turn Windows Features on or off >>
Internet Information Services >> Web Management Tools and World Wide Web Services
After Restart.
I have a website hosted in IIS at location
C:/inetpub/wwwroot/sample
and there is a folder in sample
C:/inetpub/wwwroot/sample/work
I can neither read nor write a file in this work folder. I am using C# to read and write. I have set the NTFS permissions to full access, yet the problem.
Please Help
Thanks
It probably is related to a problem with ACLs, when you run it inside Visual Studio WebDev Server it runs using your identity, and if using Visual Studio in an elevated way (Vista+) then you actually might be running as administrator. When you run it in IIS it runs as a service identity, usually Network Service for IIS 6 and 7, or AppPool Identity for IIS 7 SP2 and IIS 7.5.
One thing that I would recommend is to add some tracing information to the code that is trying to write the file, for example do a try/catch where the exception is sent to trace so that you can enable tracing and determine if an exception is happening or not.
Also make sure that you are using the right physical path since you could also be having issues with relative paths, since IIS will probably resolve them to system32 if you are not using Server.MapPath or something similar.