Publishing First WebSite-Beginning ASP.NET 4.5.1

[email protected] · July 20th, 2016, 02:16 AM

I have lodged a request for support via email before realising that I should be using this forum. I will include the text from my emails here:

I started studying this book some weeks ago and you have already helped me with an early question about source code.

I have now got to the stage of publishing the web site (PlanetWrox) and have a problem. I have installed IIS and configured it according to the bookâs instruction and when I invoke my site through the browser ( HTTP:\\localhost ) as instructed I get the following error.
HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized
You do not have permission to view this directory or page because of the access control list (ACL) configuration or encryption settings for this resource on the Web server.

I noticed that the file system security settings had not been applied correctly. All the directories inside RELEASE were missing the READ permission but did have the LIST FOLDER CONTENTS permission. NB. The RELEASE folder had both settings so I canât see why the sub-folders missed SOME of the settings.

I corrected that situation by manually setting each directory and tried the HTTP:\\localhost again. Same outcome.

I wonder if, on my first attempt to open the website IIS absorbed the (incorrect) access authorities and is reusing them each time I try to open the site. If so how can I reset them?

I should note that I am using:
Windows 10 Pro
VS Community 2015
SQLExpress 2014
CHROME browser

Any helpful comments would be greatly appreciated.
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Further to my email last night I can add the following information.

I have followed the bookâs suggestion of setting authorities for EVERYONE to have READ,LIST FOLDER,MODIFY,WRITE,EXECUTE from the folder above RELEASE and the website works. When I remove EVERYONE it doesnât work. So it is an authorities problem.

I also changed the specified process and gave .NET v4.5(user) READ,LIST FOLDER,MODIFY,WRITE,EXECUTE and that propagated successfully down to all sub-folders and other items. However the website still doesnât work.

As I said last night, I will really appreciate any help you can give.

Imar · August 9th, 2016, 11:16 AM

Sorry for my late response. I was on vacation.

Do you still need help with this? If so, can you check which application pool has been assigned to your site? That's the one for which you need to set the permissions.

Where did you store the release folder? In a folder outside of your documents i.e. C:\BegASPNET\Release?

Cheers,

Imar

[email protected] · August 10th, 2016, 02:07 AM

Thanks Imar for following up my post. It is a little late. I am now well into developing my first app and have had to uninstall the Wrox website so I can use debug for the new project.
One of my problems may well have been that I was developing on the same computer that I was installing the website to and that was risky. I have very little knowledge of web server environments. Your book has helped.
I had the Release directory well away from my Documents. C:\Z_DATA\ASPDEV\BegASPNET\Release
The Site was installed to .NET v4.5 as instructed and that was the username I set the security for - so all should have been well. The problem may have been a Windows 10 one, which I am new to. When I set up the security at the top level and then asked Windows to ripple it down to all sub-directories and items it didn't work. None of the lower levels got READ access even though the top level had it. When I rectified that and tried again, it still didn't work.

I am a retired 'old timer' trying to learn a new technology and all I have is the one PC. I don't have access to to a .NET web server at all to try things out on. DO you have any suggestions?

Imar · August 12th, 2016, 03:14 PM

>> DO you have any suggestions?

For what? For testing multiple sites? On IIS, also on Windows 10, you can create multiple sites. Just right-click on the Sites node and click Add Website.

Hope this helps,

Imar

[email protected] · August 14th, 2016, 11:30 PM

Thanks Imar
My question was related to the problem I had starting the new project with the Wrox Site installed on the same machine. For some reason I wasn't able to use DEBUG until I uninstalled the default application in IIS. Is there a way I can get onto some external server to try out and demonstrate my apps? Perhaps an external service for small players like me??
Thanks for any input.
Peter

Imar · August 16th, 2016, 10:20 AM

Like I said, you should be able to do this on Windows. I have about 15 sites running on my machine without issues.

For debugging, I would debug as explained in the book; i.e. open the web site as a File based web site using IIS Express in VS instead of going through the full local IIS.

Hopes his helps,

Imar