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Cause An "Access Denied" error message can occur for one or more of the following reasons: The folder ownership has changed. You do not have the appropriate permissions. The file is encrypted.
In Control Panel, click Programs, and then click Turn Windows features on or off. In the Windows Features dialog box, click Internet Information Services to install the default features. Expand the Application Development Features node and click ASP.NET 4.5 to add the features that support ASP.NET. (If you installed .
IIS has its own ASP.NET Process Engine to handle the ASP.NET request. So, when a request comes from client to server, IIS takes that request and process it and send the response back to clients. Hope, till now it's clear to you that what is the Web server and IIS is and what is the use of them.
I gave access to "IIS_IUser" but instead it should be "IUSR". That solved the problem.
For me, nothing worked except the following, which solved the problem: open IIS, select the site, open Authentication (in the IIS section), right click Anonymous Authentication and select Edit, select Application Pool Identity.
I had the same problem, I enabled "Anonymous Authentication" but it still did not work. So I also ENABLED "Forms Authentication" Then it worked without any problems.
OS : Windows 7 & IIS 7
If you still have permission denied after adding IUSR & NETWORK SERVICE. Add also IIS_WPG. The addition of this last user solved my problem.
For people who can't find those users: when you're trying to add a user in security of the folder (properties of the folder), click on "Advanced" of the window "Select Users or Groups". Change the location to the computer name then click on "Find Now". You'll find those users in the list below.
If you're using Anonymous Authentication, IIS 7 will use the "IUSR" account for directory access (unless you've set it to use the app pool identity. If you haven't granted IUSR sufficient permissions on your site's folders and files, you'll get this error
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