Solved: ASP.NET File IO Permission

[rtpHarry]

Hey,

After searching the forums and searching the net I finally found my solution and thought I would share it with other plesk users for when they experience this.

Restrictions:
If you dont have RDC (remote desktop) access to your server then I dont think you can solve it with my method.

Scenario:
Using 3rd party image upload script called i-load (www.radactive.com) with asp.net and when it tries to write the file to the server it fails.

I am currently running it in a dev subdomain if that makes any difference.

Solution:
I tried to use the file permissions system within plesk (in Desktop > SITENAME > Web Directories > site > FOLDERNAME) but this only let me edit the following users: IUSR_* and IWAM_*.

After some searching I found a mention of IPWD_* user accounts and I gave full permission to this server.

To do this do the follow:

- login to webserver with remote desktop
- right click folder you want to allow write permissions to
- click "sharing and security"
- click click security tab
- click add
- click advanced
- click find now
- find the user account starting IWPD_* (on my server there was only one account like this)
- add it
- allow full control to permissions (or whatever you require)

Hope this helps somebody!

If anyone knows a better solution please add this to this thread... It makes me wonder how i would do this if i was on shared hosting and my only access was via the plesk control panel?

Kind regards,
Matt
Web Design Lincolnshire

 

[Bender]

Hi, Matt.

Switch your website to run in the dedicated application pool (setup -> Use dedicated pool in Plesk). After that it will be possible to assign permissions for to iwpd_<ftp user name> user that is used to run application pool in IIS through Plesk file manager.

 

[rtpHarry]

Thanks Bender, I will give that a try!