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PRB: Cannot Set the Application Root for This Web Application

Article ID: 201140

Article Last Modified on 4/22/2001

Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition
Microsoft FrontPage 2000 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q201140

SYMPTOMS

Creating a Web project on a server with FrontPage 2000 Extensions returns the following error:

Cannot set the application root for this Web application. Server error: Cannot mark a folder executable on this server.

CAUSE

The folder security model is changed by FrontPage 2000 Extensions.

RESOLUTION

Use the following steps to solve this problem:

Using the Microsoft Management Console (MMC), select Server Extensions Administration.
Click Properties for your server.
Select the Allow Authors to Upload Executables option.

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

Keywords: kbextension kbserver kbprb KB201140