ASP.NET writing to a text file - Access denied

[terri]

Hi,

I'm trying to write to a text file from ASP.NET and I get "Access Denied" error. I know my code is correct, because I downloaded it from an online article. I can read from this file, and it seems that writing to it it's the only problem.

Any ideas what's wrong?


Terri

[administrator]

Welcome to our boards Terri ,

ASP.NET runs off it's own system account (ASPNET user group in IIS) that's why you need to use impersonation in order to be able to write to your file from ASP.NET.
To impersonate the ASPNET account just add the following line to your web.config:

<identity impersonate="true"/>

between <system.web> and </system.web>

This way the ASP.NET application will run under the IUSR_MACHINENAME account, which most likely already has write permissions.

[terri]

It worked !
Thanks for the help and the speedy reply!


Terri