IIS Probs.

[willy_ph]

A while back I set up a bbs to help me organize my thoughts for some school assignments and to play with php. I went to check on the bbs this morning and it says that I'm not authorized to view the index.php (or any other file) in the webserver directory. I think it's a problem with IIS (5.1), but I can't find it.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Mntsnow]

Errors such as that tells me that the permissions of the files/directory has changed. make sure that the folder/files have the IUSR user account in the security permissions has at least Read permissions and execute for scripts (CGI, php ect).

[Mntsnow]

What permissions have you assigned to the site in the IIS MMC control panel? Specifically the "Home Directory" tab. Also in the "Application Settings" of that same page.

[willy_ph]

I figured out the problem. It had to do with the fact that I changed the user that IIS uses for anonymous access. After I did that I removed the user from my system. Hence, I couldn't access the files because there was no user available to act as the anonymous user.

[Mntsnow]

Originally posted by Mntsnow
Errors such as that tells me that the permissions of the files/directory has changed. make sure that the folder/files have the IUSR user accounts in the security permissions has at least Read permissions and execute for scripts (CGI, php ect).

Thats what the IUSR account is for :)