visual studio 2010 unable to Publish to local web site. access denied

Question

I just reinstalled IIS7.5 after a lot of ugly messing around. I admittedly had no idea what I was doing.

I finally was able to renamed my windows\system32\inetsrv folder so that when I reinstalled IIS, I would get the default settings.

I took a wild guess at running this and it got my site running: aspnet_regiis.exe -i

Now I just can't Publish from Visual studio to any site under wwwroot.

for example, I get the error: Unable to create the Web site location 'c:\inetpub\wwwroot\WebApplication5'. Access is denied.

My work around is to Publish elsewhere and then copy the code there--and that works.

Goodness knows what else I broke in the process, but my web site appears to work except that I can't use the Publish functionality in VS2010 because of the Access Denied error.

Do I have to grant some ASPNET built in user rights to this folder?

Here's a snapshot of the rights on my wwwroot folder:

Answer 1

If you are able to run your application after copying from a different location, the problem is not with IIS or the worker process; it would most likely be a permissions problem with your windows user and process (in this case, visual studio).

Try running visual studio as an administrator (if you are not a local administrator of the machine). If that works, you can give full access to your inetpub folder for your user.