Re: IIS Password Protected Directory 403 Errors on PHP pages

From: Miguel Orrego (miguel_at_stressedmonkey.net-nospam)
Date: 12/02/04 

Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 03:38:32 -0000

I once had something similar, do your php pages include any files that are
outside the directory that you have permissioned?

I was using asp and including a file in another directory and hadn't given
the users permissions to that, 403 errors were returned.

"Ryan Hubbard" <ryanmhuc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:ab43e670.0412011212.180fb512@posting.google.com...
> I'm having difficulty accessing php pages on my site in a password
> protected directory using IIS 5. Html pages in the same directory I
> don't have a problem with just PHP pages. PHP is setup correctly and
> there are other php pages running in other non protected directories.
> I have tried giving the user name full access with NTFS permissions
> and sharing permsission to the folder and then all folders above it to
> the actual drive itself but still no luck. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

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