ASP net Getting the error Access to the path is denied while trying to upload files to my Windows Server 2008 R2 Web server

Question

I have an asp net webapplication that uploads files to a specific folder on the Web server  locally everything works fine  but when I deploy the application to the Webserver  I begin getting the error  Access to the path  D  Attachments myfile doc  is denied   I gave the  IIS AppPool  user that the application is running under full permission on the folder  I even gave  Everyone  full permissions  but with the same error   I added the folder to the Exceptions list of the Antivirus  but with the same result  I am begining to suspect that maybe Windows Server 2008 R2 needs a trick for my upload to work  I really appreciate your help   Thanks

User · Answer

the problem might be that networkservice has no read rights

salution:

rightclick your upload folder -> poperty's -> security ->Edit -> add -> type :NETWORK SERVICE -> check box full control allow-> press ok or apply

User · Answer

I faced this problem once and in my case the soln is to close any process in the task manager that uses accesses that file

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If anyone stumbles across this as it is the first result in google   remember to specify the filename too in the SaveAs method   Won t work  file upload PostedFile SaveAs Server MapPath SaveLocation      You need this   filename   Path GetFileName file upload PostedFile FileName   file upload PostedFile SaveAs Server MapPath SaveLocation          filename      I assumed the SaveAs method will automatically use the filename uploaded  Kept getting  Access denied  error  Not very descriptive of the actual problem

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Go to root folder  Right Click  click on Properties  Choose Tab Security  Click on Edit  Click on Add  Type  EveryOne   Click OK  Check Out Full Control  Click OK

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I know this is late to the game  but I wanted to share in case it helps someone    Your exact situation may not apply  however I had a similar situation and setting the File attribute helped   Try to set the File attribute to Normal   var path   Server MapPath    App Data file txt    File SetAttributes path  FileAttributes Normal   System IO File WriteAllText path   Hello World      I hope this helps someone

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Right click on your folder on your server or local machine and give full permissions to   IIS IUSRS  that s it

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Your asp net account  MACHINE  ASPNET does not have write access to that location  That is the reason why its failing   Consider granting access rights to the resource to the ASP NET request identity    Right click on downloading folder Properties  gt  Security Tab  gt  Edit  gt  Add  gt  locations  gt  choose your local machine  gt  click OK  gt  Type ASPNET below  Enter the object name to select   gt  Click Check Names Check the boxes for the desired access  Full Control   If it will not work for you do the same with Network Service  Now this should show your local  MACHINENAME  ASPNET account  then you set the write permission to this account   Otherwise if the application is impersonating via  lt identity impersonate  true   gt   the identity will be the anonymous user  typically IUSR MACHINENAME  or the authenticated request user      Or just use dedicated location for storing files in ASP NET which is App Data  To create it right click on your ASP NET Project  in Visual Studio  Add  gt  Add ASP NET Folder  gt  App Data  Then you ll be able to save data to this location   var path   Server MapPath    App Data file txt    System IO File WriteAllText path   Hello World

User · Answer

Verify what are you attempting to write  I was having the same issue  but I realized i was trying to write a byte array with length of 0  It doesn t make sense to me  but I get   quot Access to the path  quot

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Have you looked under Advanced Security Settings   something like below image change permissions of folder to IIS IUSRS

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