I am a bit of a newbee to any kind of programming but have recently bought Building an APS.NET Intranet after finishing Beginning ASP.NET using VB.NET.
I have the .NET Framework 1.1, SQL Server (Evaluation Edition) using Windows Authentication and IIS installed.
I have downloaded the IBuy Spy Portal and installed it, with a problem that I had to over come. Basically the installation failed as access to the web.config file was denied. This seemed to be because the file was read only. After changing the attribute I was able to install the portal ok.
However, when I try to open the portal by typing http://localhost/portalvb in the address bar, I get a 403 - Forbidden "You are not authorised to view this page" page.
I am logged on as an administrator to the machine so I should have access to everything. The portal users are; dbo and home300\ASPNET.
All the files with the exception of web.config are read only and I have changed all the files so they are not read only but get the same problem.
This is probably a very simple problem and isn't .NET related but I can't seem to get to the bottom of it.

Any ideas anyone??

Thanks, Chris.

Hi Chris,
try to add ASP.NET machine account to your virtual directory.
Most problem is due to missing of asp.net machine account.

MDaniel
Thanks for your help. Unfortunately I am still experiencing the same problem. Although that should be, I was experiencing the same problem.
I went back to loading version 1.0 of the Framework and the portal started working straight away.
Will have a look at why this was later but at least for now I can get on with some developing.

Thanks again for your reply.

Chris.