Access to Path “something” is denied

Question

Most of the solutions here don't work.

I am trying to upload a file, an image, to a folder in the server called images, when i click the button to upload it, after it passes ImageUpload.SaveAs(Path) i get an exception "Access to Path "any path here" is denied, now i tried editing the security tab of the folder and gave permission to NETWORK SERVICE , i tried giving permission to IIS AppPool\\DefaultAppPool , still not working. i also enabled ASP.NET Impersonation in the iis manager as some other people said, still same error.

Answer 1

The default Identity the applicationpool runs in, is the ApplicationPoolIdentity , not the NETWORK SERVICE account.

You could assign modify rights on the folder to the ApplicationPoolIdentity (look here ), or you can change the identity of the application pool to a different user with permissions on the uploads folder.

Do take care when you run the applicationpool with a different user: make sure not to give that user more rights than in absolutely needs.