Question

I have a web application that include a reference which will create a new folder when the reference’s method is called.

However i have an error when my application call the method.

Access to the path 'TempPDFStorage/' is denied.

I try the same thing in windows form. It have no issue and the new folder will be created in the bin/debug/

What should i do??

Answer 1

Are you trying to access this path on the client machine or server? If you have rights to IIS you can impersonate a user for your application that has rights to that directory and you should be fine then.

To set the security context of a user with permissions:

1. Open up IIS Manager (Run -> “inetmgr”)
2. Locate your web application
3. Click on your web application and on the right side click “Basic Settings…”
4. Click “Connect as…”
5. Select “Specific User”
6. Click “Set…”
7. Enter the credentials of the user with permissions to that directory

Conversely, to impersonate as an unauthenticated user you can do this:

1. Follow the above steps 1 and 2
2. On the Features View double click “Authentication”
3. Depending on how you have authentication set up you can configure the “Anonymous” to use specific credentials (by default it is set to IUSR)