Hey everyone,

I keep getting the following error:

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DotNetNuke Configuration Error

Access to the path 'c:\************\************\wwwroot\web.config' is denied.Access to the path 'c:\************\************\wwwroot\SiteUrls.config' is denied.

DotNetNuke has extensive file upload capabilities for content, modules, and skins. These features require custom security settings so that the application is able to create and remove files in your website.

Using Windows Explorer, browse to the root folder of the website ( C:\DotNetNuke by default ). Right-click the folder and select Sharing and Security from the popup menu ( please note that if you are using Windows XP you may need to Enable Simple File Sharing before these options are displayed ). Select the Security tab. Add the appropriate User Account and set the Permissions.

If using Windows 2000 - IIS5
- the {Server}\ASPNET User Account must have Read, Write, and Change Control of the virtual root of your website

If using Windows 2003 - IIS6
- the NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE User Account must have Read, Write, and Change Control of the virtual root of your website

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I have given read permission to NETWORK SERVICE to my entire C: drive as well as double, triple checking and more that it has full permissions over the wwwroot directory.  I did a search on Google and followed the instruction tutorial from the ASP.NET website.  I'm running Windows 2003 Standard with SQL Server 2000.  I've made the changes to the web.config, after I renamed release.config, to accept SQL Server 2000 instead of 2005.  I've even explicitly given the ASP.NET machine account full control over wwwroot as well.  I made sure it had it's own separate application pool as well.

I'm quite green to ASP.NET 2.0, maybe that's the issue.  But basically I've done all I can.  Any help is appreciated.  I've spent the last going on 8 hours straight trying to figure this out and I've pretty must decimated my website trying to get this to work.  PLEASE HELP!!

Thanks,
Michael a.k.a. majestic

Ok, I noticed the other place in web.config that I didn't see before but I'm still getting an access permissions error on web.config.  I've right clicked and checked and NETWORK SERVICE has full control over it.

Okay! So check this out...

It works! What was going on is the application pool (new for IIS6) owner was NOT the Network Service account. Instead it was the IWAM user account. Everything worked beautifully once I set up modify rights for the IWAM user on my directory.

For anyone else experiencing this same problem, check out the owner for your application pool. It may not be the Network Service account. If that's the case, give the application pool owner modify rights to your directory. Then, re-run your install.

And, to give credit where credit is due...

Here's the article I read which lead me to this discovery:

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/ForumsDotNetNuke/tabid/795/forumid/107/threadid/20644/scope/posts/Default.aspx

SWEEEEEEET!