Question

I am trying to upload image files to the server and it gives me an error

"System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'D:\Hosting\234344\html\Testingfiles\upload\813.jpg' is denied.at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)"

in the HttpHandler I have :

HttpPostedFile file = context.Request.Files["Filedata"];

string usr_id = context.Request.Form["usr_id"];// gets the JSON data from the request
string strPath = context.Server.MapPath(("/Testingfiles/upload/") + file.FileName);
string ext = Path.GetExtension(strPath);

if (ext.Equals(".jpg") || ext.Equals(".jpeg") || ext.Equals(".png"))
{
   file.SaveAs(strPath);
   context.Response.Write("Image uploaded successfully");
}

what am i doing wrong here?

Answer 1

The error message says it all. You don’t have write access to that folder.

You will need to ask your hosting provider to assign write rights to that folder for the ASP .NET identity.

Also, consider if you can use a folder below ~/App_Data. This is by convention the place to store files that needs write access in ASP .NET, so many hosting providers will allow writes to this folder by default (but you would need to check yourself for your specific host to be sure).