File permission problem

[Richard Muller]

Hi,

I new to ASP. I have a problem with an ASP script opening a file for
writing on my server. Here's how I got to this error:

I downloaded a neat FileUpload ASP example from
http://www.asp101.com/articles/jacob/scriptupload.asp.

I copied to my wwwroot folder on my Win2000AS/SP4 server:
- main .asp file
- a subordinate .asp file that the main file references; and
- a webform .html file

Because of the problem I encountered I added a number of debugging
statements to the script. Then I invoked the webform from a workstation
using IE6.0 by referencing the server's IP address appended with webform
..html file's name.

I completed the form with:
- Name: RLM
- File: F:\_Projects_Cu rrent\_Projects _ASP\Test\Uploa d_test.txt
and clicked Submit. I got the following error:

Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A0046)
Permission denied
/upload.asp, line 137

The offending line is:
Set oFile = oFS.CreateTextF ile(sPath & FileName, True)

I commented out this line, which then yielded:
Thank you for your upload RLM
Saving to folder D:\UploadedFile s\
Validating existence of folder D:\UploadedFile s\
Saving data to D:\UploadedFile s\Upload_test.t xt
File Uploaded: Upload_test.txt
Size: 21 bytes
Type: text/plain

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

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Regards,
Richard

I can resist everything except temptation
Lord Darlington in "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde

[Richard Muller]

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Yeah, unfortunately, I don't think any IT career can be
performed in a vacuum. If you program, you have to understand networking,
permissions, domains, and other such things.
I agree in general. However, I've almost always worked in large
institutions which had network administrators that prevented app developers
from making any changes to network configuration. That's why I've never
paid much attention to it. But I decided to put up a website on my own
server and eventually open it to the public. Hence the present need for
hands-on networking.
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I'm not ready for mobile communications right now. I want to keep my on
website development with "traditiona l" access, along with good design to
make it attractive, good content to make it interesting and good security
to make it reliable. That's enough to worry about for one lone programmer
(with the technical support of my son, whose a high-level developer in a
national website, except he's mainly Linux and Unix rather than Windows, and
big packages like BEA rather than low-level development.)

I'm on a roll now, working to hook ASP into SQL Server 2000 right now. I'll
post another plea for help when that turns out to be problematical, but I
don't really anticipate any difficuly.

C'ya,
Richard

[Richard Muller]

Hey Ray,

I tried to access a SQL Server 7 database using ADO within ASP. I had
trouble getting it working, so I decided to install SQL Server 2000
Enterprise Edition over version 7, which failed (probably because of all the
security updates, etc. done in the past two years to the Win2000 Adv.
Server SP4 installation.

If you're still in the mood to help this humble programmer and up to speed
on the intricacies on SQL Server installations, please take a look at my
post :
"Recovery from failed SQL2000 update to SQL7 - How?" on the NG
"microsoft.publ ic.sqlserver.se tup".

Regards,
Richard

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Assuming you're using anonymous access on your site (the default), you'll
have to give IUSR_<computern ame> NTFS write permissions to the directory to which you're trying to save the file, D:\UploadedFile s.

Ray at work

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Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A0046)
Permission denied
/upload.asp, line 137

The offending line is:
Set oFile = oFS.CreateTextF ile(sPath & FileName, True)

Saving to folder D:\UploadedFile s\