Rajeev Pentyala – Technical Blog on Power Platform, Azure and AI

I was getting below “Access denied” error, when I was browsing my Aspx page hosted in IIS 7.

Hers are more details about my hosted Asp.net web application

• Website application pool’s Pipeline mode is “Integrated”
• Application pool Identity set to a Service Account

Below is the reason and fix that worked in my case

Reason

• Issue seems a permission issue to access the temporary folder, for the account under which the website is running.
• In our scenario, it’s the “Service Account” under which website is running does not have write access to Temp folder

Fix 1

•  Provide “Write” access to the “C:\Windows\Temp” folder, to the Account under which your application running

Fix 2

• Grant the required permissions to the “Service Account” by running Aspnet_regiis.exe -ga [User id]
  • So it grants the specified user or group access to the IIS metabase and other directories that are used by ASP.NET.
  • We typically use this option when creating a custom service account.

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