Permissions on WWW Default File Creates Access Denied Error Message
Article ID: 161066
Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Internet Information Server 1.0
This article was previously published under Q161066
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SYMPTOMS
If the Internet Information Server (IIS) administrator sets file
permissions on the predefined default file in a WWW publication directory,
a client browser may get an access denied error, without the
opportunity to provide validation.
CAUSE
If an IIS 1.0 administrator applies permissions to the default file in a
WWW publication directory when a browser executes a URL (for example,
HTTP://myserver), the browser may receive an access denied without returning
a logon dialog request. If the full URL is provided to the default file
(for example, HTTP://myserver/default.htm), the browser will return a logon
dialog request.
WORKAROUND
Set the appropriate user permissions on the specific WWW publication
Directory, as well as the default file within the directory.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Internet
Information Server version 1.0. This problem has been fixed in Internet
Information Server version 2.0.
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