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Programmatically setting the "execute permissions" for a virtual directory to "Scripts Only"

I was wondering if anyone knew the property that you can set to make a virtual directory's execute permissions set to scripts only. I am trying to automatically create multiple virtual directories within a custom installation process.

I'm using System.DirectoryServices:

// Code chunk
DirectoryEntries virtualEntries = rootIIS.Children;

// now add each virtual
DirectoryEntry virtualDir = null;

try
{
virtualDir = rootIIS.Children.Find(appName, "IIsWebVirtualDir");
}
catch { /* do nothing */ }

if (virtualDir == null)
virtualDir = rootIIS.Children.Add(appName, "IIsWebVirtualDir");

virtualDir.CommitChanges();

virtualDir.Properties["AppRoot"][0] = "/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/" + appName;
virtualDir.Invoke("AppCreate2", new object[] { "2" });
virtualDir.CommitChanges();
virtualDir.Properties["Path"][0] = path;
virtualDir.Properties["EnableDefaultDoc"][0] = true;
virtualDir.Properties["DefaultDoc"][0] = defaultDocName;
virtualDir.Properties["AppFriendlyName"][0] = appName;
virtualDir.Properties["AccessRead"][0] = true;
virtualDir.Properties["AccessExecute"][0] = false;
virtualDir.Properties["AccessScript"][0] = true;
virtualDir.Properties["EnableDirBrowsing"][0] = false;
virtualDir.Properties["AuthAnonymous"][0] = true;
virtualDir.Properties["AuthBasic"][0] = false;
virtualDir.Properties["AuthNTLM"][0] = false;
virtualDir.Properties["EnableDefaultDoc"][0] = true;
virtualDir.Properties["DefaultDoc"][0] = defaultDocName;
// End Code Chunk

Is it a property available to me within the Properties of a Virtual Directory(Directory Entry) object? The virtual directories are all created perfectly, but the execute permissions are not being properly set to scripts only. Any ideas?

Thanks!

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i-mate05

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Thanks for the informative response, I can successfully set the execute permissions to scripts only when applying this through VBScript, however I still cannot apply this setting through .NET's System.DirectoryServices... I'll post another thread on this issue. Thanks for the help!

kstorey

This definately can be achieved using system.directoryservices.directoryentry
It looks as though you're committing the setitngs prior to the script access being set (you definately use virtualDir.Properties["AccessScript"][0] = true;)
Try this instead:
virtualDir.Properties["AppRoot"][0] = "/LM/W3SVC/1/ROOT/" + appName;
virtualDir.Properties["Path"][0] = path;
virtualDir.Properties["EnableDefaultDoc"][0] = true;
virtualDir.Properties["DefaultDoc"][0] = defaultDocName;
virtualDir.Properties["AppFriendlyName"][0] = appName;
virtualDir.Properties["AccessRead"][0] = true;
virtualDir.Properties["AccessExecute"][0] = false;
virtualDir.Properties["AccessScript"][0] = true;
virtualDir.Properties["EnableDirBrowsing"][0] = false;
virtualDir.Properties["AuthAnonymous"][0] = true;
virtualDir.Properties["AuthBasic"][0] = false;
virtualDir.Properties["AuthNTLM"][0] = false;
virtualDir.Properties["EnableDefaultDoc"][0] = true;
virtualDir.Properties["DefaultDoc"][0] = defaultDocName;
virtualDir.Invoke("AppCreate2", new object[] { "2" });
virtualDir.CommitChanges();

Programmatically setting the &quot;execute permissions&quot; for a virtual directory to &quot;Scripts Only&quot;

Programmatically setting the "execute permissions" for a virtual directory to "Scripts Only"