Writing to a remote file

Hi
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I'm fairly new to ASP.NET and am running Visual Studio 2005. I'm having a
problem implementing a guestbook page - wondered if someone could shed some
light on where I'm going wrong?
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The application runs ok on my local server, but when I try running it on my
remote web hosting service I seem to have problems saving the xml file.
Here's a summary of the message I receive when I hit my submit button and
try to write back into the guestbook:
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Access to the path 'C:\Inetpub\vhosts\**********\httpdocs\guestbook.x ml' is
denied
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Source Error:
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Line 35: * * * * // Insert data into the XML doc and save
Line 36: * * * * myXmlDocument.DocumentElement.InsertBefore(myXmlEl ement,
myXmlNode);
Line 37: * * * * myXmlDocument.Save(Server.MapPath("~/guestbook.xml"));
Line 38:
Line 39: * * * * // Re-bind data since the doc has been added to
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It reads the guestbokk ok, but it looks almost like the file is read-only-
although I'm sure I didn't set it as such.
Is anyone familiar enough with the Parallels hosting service to advise me
how to ensure that the file attributes are correctly set?
Can I test the attributes from a browser?
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Thanks for any help
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Jeff

"Alexey Smirnov" <alexey.smir...@gmail.comwrote in message
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Hi Jeff
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this message means that the user account used for ASP.NET has no
rights to write in a files in that directory. The IIS Process Model on
IIS 6+ uses the NETWORK SERVICE account, and IIS 5 uses the ASPNET
account. You need to go to the control panel of your hosting service
and give write access for the required directory.
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Hope this helps
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Thanks Alexey
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So, is it better to move this file to a sub-directory (say httpdocs/public)
and give write access to that rather than risk having other files within
httpdocs overwritten -

or can I set permissions at the file level as well as
the directory level?

And is there any simple way to stop a mallicious user from filling up my
web-space with junk?

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Thanks again
Jeff

Hi
>
I'm fairly new to ASP.NET and am running Visual Studio 2005. I'm having a
problem implementing a guestbook page - wondered if someone could shed some
light on where I'm going wrong?
>
The application runs ok on my local server, but when I try running it on my
remote web hosting service I seem to have problems saving the xml file.
Here's a summary of the message I receive when I hit my submit button and
try to write back into the guestbook:
>
Access to the path 'C:\Inetpub\vhosts\**********\httpdocs\guestbook.x ml' is
denied
>
Source Error:
>
Line 35: // Insert data into the XML doc and save
Line 36: myXmlDocument.DocumentElement.InsertBefore(myXmlEl ement,
myXmlNode);
Line 37: myXmlDocument.Save(Server.MapPath("~/guestbook.xml"));
Line 38:
Line 39: // Re-bind data since the doc has been added to
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>
It reads the guestbokk ok, but it looks almost like the file is read-only -
although I'm sure I didn't set it as such.
Is anyone familiar enough with the Parallels hosting service to advise me
how to ensure that the file attributes are correctly set?
Can I test the attributes from a browser?
>
Thanks for any help
>
Jeff
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you should be writing files to the app_data folder as writing to this
folder will not trigger a application recycle. also its protected from
users being able to download files directly. when you create the folder be
sure to give the appdomain account access.
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-- bruce (sqlwork.com)
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"bruce barker" <nos...@nospam.comwrote in message
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Thanks bruce.
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Can I just check I understand you correctly here?
Are you saying that changing a file in any directory other than App_Data may
trigger a recylce?
Does that mean a rebuild of the app's dll's ?
Just wanted to check.
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Thanks
Jeff