Question

Hi I seem to be having a problem when uploading images in asp.net.When I tryed to upload an Image I get this error:

Access to the path ‘D:\Projects IDE\Visual Studio\MyWork\Websites\Forum\Images\avatar\userAvatars\aleczandru’ is denied.

I have set application pools Identoty to NETWORKSERVICE ando also added the NETWORK SERVICE account to the Images folder with full permision but I still get the same error.

This is my code:

private void addImageToApp()
{
    string path = "~/Images/avatar/userAvatars/" + User.Identity.Name;

    createPath(path);
    if( Directory.Exists(HostingEnvironment.MapPath(path)))
    {
        //try {
              UploadImage.SaveAs(HostingEnvironment.MapPath(path));
          //    MultiViewIndex.ActiveViewIndex = 0;
        //}catch(Exception ex)
        //{
          //     AvatarDetails.Text = ex.Message;
        //}  
    }
}

private void createPath(string path)
{  
    string activeDir = HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/Images/avatar/userAvatars");
    if( !Directory.Exists(Server.MapPath(path)) )
    {
        string newPath = Path.Combine(activeDir, User.Identity.Name);
        Directory.CreateDirectory(newPath);
    }
}

What else can I do to solve this problem?

EDIT

Hi at this point I have full permision control to the following USERS:

• Authetificated Users
• IUSR
• SYSTEM
• NETWORK SERVICE
• IIS_WPG
• Administrator
• USers

Is it posible that I need to set any configuration to IIS in order for this to work?

EDIT

I have messed around with SQL-SERVER for the last couple of days in order to make this work so I might have missconfigured something form what I understand NETWORK SERVICE is stored in SQL-SERVER master.db database.I seem to be having two network service logins may this be the problem?I remember when I first checked it I had none now I have two:

EDIT

This is the print with the permisions I added to the folder:

EDIT : Complete error

StackTrace:

Answer 1

In method CreatePath you are creating folder ‘D:\Projects IDE\Visual Studio\MyWork\Websites\Forum\Images\avatar\userAvatars\aleczandru’.

Then, you try to save the uploaded image with the filename ‘D:\Projects IDE\Visual Studio\MyWork\Websites\Forum\Images\avatar\userAvatars\aleczandru’.

You can’t have a folder and a file with the same name. If you try to do this, the OS will tell you access is denied.

I suppose you want to either create a filename inside folder aleczandru, or you meant to save the file as aleczandru.png or something in folder userAvatars.

Assuming your UploadImage is a FileUpload control, you can save the file to the user’s folder using the original file name of the uploaded file.

UploadImage.SaveAs(HostingEnvironment.MapPath(
    Path.Combine(path, UploadImage.FileName)));