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Old July 28th, 2008, 03:09 PM
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I'm trying to learn ASP.Net from "Beginning ASP.Net 2.0" (VB). I just tried to run the complete sample website on XP Pro IIS. I followed the instructions in the book on how to setup the website, and I think (I'm pretty sure) I got my permissions for the App_Data folder configured correctly. Anyhow, the website (running on localhost) seems to work, but when I click on the shopping cart, or when I go to the shop and click "add to cart" by an item, I get this error:

 
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quote:Failed to update database "C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL USERS\DOCUMENTEN\DEVELOPMENTWEBSITES\WROXUNITED\AP P_DATA\ASPNETDB.MDF" because the database is read-only.
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Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Failed to update database "C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL USERS\DOCUMENTEN\DEVELOPMENTWEBSITES\WROXUNITED\AP P_DATA\ASPNETDB.MDF" because the database is read-only.
Does anybody know how to correct this problem?

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Never mind: I found my App_Data folder was read_only. Once I changed that, it worked fine.

Silly me...
 
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Hi there,

A few things to check / do:

1. Move the whole web site outside your "My Documents" folder. A good location is C:\Projects or C:\inetpub.

2. Make sure the database file itself (the .mdf) is not read-only.

3. Make sure you configured permissions for the containing *folder*, not just the .mdf file.

4. Make sure you configure the correct account, which is ASPNET on Windows XP.

If that doesn't help, can you please specify what exactly you have configured?

Cheers,

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Thank you kindly for your reply. I managed to solve the problem. The permission were configured correctly. Also, the site was not located in the MyDocuments folder (Shared documents folder). It turned out that the App_Data folder was set to "read only", which was why I couldn't update the DB. Once the "read only" was unchecked, it all worked fine. It turned out to be really simple...

Thanks again.

Emiel
 
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Yeah, I saw your reply come in shortly after I posted mine...

Still, you may want to consider the C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\ALL USERS\ location; it's not the best place for a web site...

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