Configuration Error Access To Web.config Denied
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Error “Access to the path ‘E:sitesroot Web.config’ is denied” when storing Azure AD’s public key in Web.config of an Azure Cloud Services application. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Leonardo Villar [MSFT]January 15, an error occurred loading a configuration file access to the path web.config is denied 20160 0 0 0 I have worked on a scenario where a an error occurred loading a configuration file access to the path .tmp is denied Web Role application which had been working fine for a long time just started throwing the error “Access [no relevant source lines] to the path ‘E:\sitesroot\0\Web.config’ is denied” without any change or update to the deployment: Looking at the error, it’s a bit clear that for some reason, the Application
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Pool identity doesn’t have some specific access to web.config file. But if we didn’t make any change to the deployment a few questions start coming into play: What is the default Application Pool Identity account for a Web Role? What permission access does this account need now? Why just now? These are very good questions and we I will answer one access to the path is denied c# by one: 1)For Azure Cloud Services Web Roles, the default Application Pool Identity account is “Network Service” 2) In a normal basis the Application Pool account needs read permission over the web.config file so it can read all the application configuration. However, looking into the Security info for this config file inside the instance, we can see Network Service already has read access. So, what else does this account need? In this specific case, after we analyzed this web.config content we found a block which looks like the following:
post as spam? This post will be reported to the moderators as potential spam to be looked at Yes No Torben Rügge 27 posts 47 karma points Sep 04, 2009 @ 17:13 0 Access to tmp file to update web.config during first time installation Installing umbraco Step 2/5: Database configuration Database configuration To complete this step, you must know some information regarding your database server ("connection string").Please contact your ISP if necessary. If you're installing on a local machine or server you might need information from your system administrator. If you do not have any database available, you can choose the embedded database which does not require any information from your ISP or system administrators, and will install right away. Could not save the web.config file. Please modify the connection string manually. An error occurred loading a configuration file: Access to the path 'C:\inetpub\wwwroot\bfdhrw3w.tmp' is denied. (C:\inetpub\wwwroot\web.config) Type: Microsoft SQL Server MySQL Embedded database (VistaDB) Custom connection Server: Database name: Username: Password: Can anyone tell me which user needs which access rights and how to set them up, please Kind regards Torben Complete newbie to Umbraco Copy Link Jan Skovgaard 10728 posts 20983 karma points admin mvp c-trib Sep 04, 2009 @ 22:19 0 Hi Torben I think it's because you need to give write permissions to the ASP.NET user. But I'm not quite sure. /Jan Copy Link Jan Skovgaard 10728 posts 20983 karma points admin mvp c-trib Sep 04, 2009 @ 22:22 0 However you could also open the web.config file and modify the connection string in the following line: