Re: VS2008 HTTP 403 Help!!



Sure Juan - what's the url to the "Connect site" ?

Also now after doing this I've getting the following error on build
Error 1 It is an error to use a section registered as
allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error
can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application
in IIS. D:\_VS2008 PROJECTS\TestWebApp\TestWebApp\Web.config 70

Seems like the publish took away the projects web app status.

My project now looks like "D:\_VS2008 PROJECTS\TestWebApp\

Looks like when you publish this it just reverts to using the old dev server
and not IIS
http://localhost:4788/TestWebApplication/
which does work but I want to use IIS........

what's the url to the "Connect site" ?

Thanks
Harry

"Juan T. Llibre" <nomailreplies@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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!> Just when I switch to IIS in VS2008 project properties - WEB do I run
into problems

I just reproduced what you're seeing.

I think it may be related to VS 2008 running ASP.NET apps as
MachineName\Administrator,
while IIS runs them as MachineName\ASP.NET_account, in your case :
MachineName\ASPNET
and in my case, MachineName\Network Service.

What I don't understand is why the MachineName\ASP.NET_account's
permissions don't take hold,
even though the account is explicitly granted access permissions.

I did find a workaround for your problem which, as mentioned, I was able
to reproduce.

What I did was *publish* the project to a disk-based directory.
Then, I created a virtual directory in IIS which points to the directory
where the project was published to.

After that, using the option "Open web site" in VS 2008,
allowed me to open, edit and run the published project.

Also, if I open the property pages for the project,
and configure the "Use custom server" option to
http://localhost/ApplicationName/,
(the same virtual directory name I created in IIS) I can also browse the
project from within VS 2008 using IIS.

So, while this is a good workaround, it looks like you found a bug.
Can you file a bug report at the Connect site ?




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"Harry Simpson" <hssimpson@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Juan

Got
ASP.NET is running as the account : SIMPSON2\ASPNET

And the physical directory the virtual hits has full access granted to
ASP.NET Machine Account (SIMPSON2\ASPNET)

VS2008 defaults to using the personal server - which works fine - no HTTP
403 error with it. Just when I switch to
IIS in VS2008 project popreties - WEB do I run into problems
Could it be here that things a screwed up?

I set the project URL to the virtual directory
http://localhost/TestWebApp

Thanks
Harry

"Juan T. Llibre" <nomailreplies@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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!> And I've given full rights on the directory where the web app actual
files reside...

To which account did you give rights to ?
Which OS are you running VS 2008 on ?




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"Harry Simpson" <hssimpson@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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And I've given full rights on the directory where the web app actual
files reside...
"Harry Simpson" <hssimpson@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Those were the first things I checked. Yes.
It creates a virtual directory in the project properties. When I go
into IIS I see it as a web app.

"Juan T. Llibre" <nomailreplies@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is your ASP.NET application running as an IIS application ?
Does the account ASP.NET runs as, have read permissions to the app's
physical directory ?




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"Harry Simpson" <hssimpson@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've been away from ASPNET - I open up a new Web app in VS2008 and
go into properties and select to use IIS
instead of the personal web server. Then I run in debug mode and it
says I have to set the Debug= True in the
Web.config which I do. Then try to run it again and it says I must
enable integrated security which I do. I then
try to run it again and get the HTTP 403 error - " This error (HTTP
403 Forbidden) means that Internet Explorer
was able to connect to the website, but it does not have permission
to view the webpage."

What have I got to do to get around this to debug a simple ASPNET
app?

TIA
Harry
















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