On Thursday 07 September 2006 05:51, Kobus Myburgh wrote:
Hi Jason,
Thanks for that info. Not sure how to check that permission you are talking about, but I have done the next best thing that I could think of. I created a file in the root directory of the site, called test.html which just performs a bunch of random prints on the screen, and called it by means of http://www.mydomain.com/test.html and was able to get the expected result. Doesn't this mean that the permissions are correct?
Not necessarily. When you create a file, that file will be created with the permissions of the directory in which it is created. If you have the ability to create a file, then you most likely have the ability to read that (and probably any other) file (except in rather bizarre circumstances). When you copy or move a file or directory, however, they may retain their previous permissions (depending on how they were copied or moved) which may not be the correct ones to be used w/IIS.
In order to check, you would have to look at the permissions of both the files and directories themselves (with Windows Explorer, for example) and within the IIS configuration (I don't remember off the top of my head where in the IIS configuration those settings are). Those are two different areas, and both would have to be verified, if there was a concern.