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Error 401.2 Access Denied Error

I have an asp.net web app built in VS2008. This works fine on my dev laptop. I have uploaded to a server running Windows 2003 Server Web Edition and setup a new web site in IIS6. The server already runs a couple of asp.net 1.1 websites with no problems, this is the first asp.net 2.0 site.

I have set all the permissions - the Network Server account & the IUSR account have read permissions on the folder of the site. The site is set to allow anonymous access with the ISUR user. I've set everything I can think of but it still gives me access denied error 401.2

If I set the ASP.Net version to 1.1 - the site runs but obviously errors because it can't run asp.net 2.0 code - it doesn't recognize the code behind.

I have put the new site in its own application pool so it doesn't conflict with the other sites on the server, but nothing I seem to do works. Can anyone pleeeease help!

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Faheem Shaikh

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GuitarRich

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No files are being written - it doens't work even if the default page is just index.html with nothing but hello world in it. I think the error occurs before any asp.net code gets run.

GuitarRich

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Ok - I take that back, just double checked and I can get to an index.html ok. The default page is re-directing to 2 other pages depending on whether you are browsing via a PDA, Mobile Phone or Browser.
I'll check there next.

Faheem Shaikh

Ok, great!

GuitarRich

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never mind - it was me being very stupid and not noticing a web.config in a sub folder that was being re-directed too.

GuitarRich

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thanks for helping me to see the obvious!!

Faheem Shaikh

Cheers!!!!