I am having trouble installing the Phile application. did every step but no luck. If anyone can help, would be much much appreciated.

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Server Error in '/thephile' Application.
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Security Exception
Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application's trust level in the configuration file.

Exception Details: System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.

Source Error:


Line 29: if (!EventLog.SourceExists("ThePhile.COM"))
Line 30: {
Line 31: EventLog.CreateEventSource("ThePhile.COM", "Application");Line 32: }
Line 33: EventLog.WriteEntry("ThePhile.COM", message, entryType);


Source File: C:\wrox\thephile\PhilePage.cs Line: 31

This has been discussed here many times. The ASPNET userid doesn't have permission to create an event source in ASP.NET v1.1 (the book was written for 1.0).

The readme.htm file in the code download tells you to change machine.config to cause ASP.NET to run with the system account.

I prefer to tell people to create the event source themselves outside of a web application, but keep using the ASPNET user account for the application. This is a more secure solution.

The ideal solution for many of us is to change it to log errors to a file, since we can't use the EventLog on a hosted website. The VB.NET code download explains this change.

Eric

Thanks for your reply. But I am using asp.net 1.0. did change the machine.config file user name to system. this is my own machine so i have all the permissions i need. not sure what I am doing wrong.

is there more documentation available anywhere else..cause the ones around i looked didn't solve the the issue.

any thoughts would be much much appreciated.

hmmm...are you using WinXP SP2?

Eric

I am using windows 2000 advanced server, SQL 2000.

Make yourself a C# console application like this and run it. Tell me if you get any errors. If you don't get any errors, then check your Windows event log to see if it has the event we're writing. If it does have the event, then run your web app again and see if it works.

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;

class MySample
{

    public static void Main()
    {

        // Create the source, if it does not already exist.
        if (EventLog.SourceExists("ThePhile.COM"))
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Source already exists");
        }
        else
        {
            EventLog.CreateEventSource("ThePhile.COM", "Application");
            Console.WriteLine("CreatingEventSource");
        }

        // Create an EventLog instance and assign its source.
        EventLog myLog = new EventLog();
        myLog.Source = "ThePhile.COM";

        // Write an informational entry to the event log.
        myLog.WriteEntry("ThePhile test message");

        Console.Write("Message written to eventlog. Press Enter...");
        Console.ReadLine();
    }
}