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esonline
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June 23, 2006
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Limiting Access to Directory on Server

  • June 23, 2006
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Hi;

I am developing a site where at some point the user can download/display certain PDF documents which are located on the server in a specific directory.

The server is a Windows Server 2003 and I am using IIS 6.0 and my application is ASP VBScript

Now i wanted to be able to upload infomration to that directory directly myself so in IIS I allowed "Director Browsing". This way i could just typein my domain and the name of the directory. i.e. <b>www.mydomain.com/Documents</b> But this also made it possible for anyone to access it as well.

To solve the issue, in IIS i set the security for the directory so that it is not accessable by a web user. But that did not work.

Does anyone know of a solution?
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Newsgroup_User
Inspiring
June 24, 2006
I would be creating a password protected upload page rather than having open
access to the folder.

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Paul Whitham
Certified Dreamweaver MX2004 Professional
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver

Valleybiz Internet Design
www.valleybiz.net

"esonline" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:e7h585$kou$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi;
>
> I am developing a site where at some point the user can download/display
> certain PDF documents which are located on the server in a specific
> directory.
>
> The server is a Windows Server 2003 and I am using IIS 6.0 and my
> application
> is ASP VBScript
>
> Now i wanted to be able to upload infomration to that directory directly
> myself so in IIS I allowed "Director Browsing". This way i could just
> typein
> my domain and the name of the directory. i.e.
> www.mydomain.com/Documents But this also made it possible for
> anyone to
> access it as well.
>
> To solve the issue, in IIS i set the security for the directory so that it
> is
> not accessable by a web user. But that did not work.
>
> Does anyone know of a solution?
>


E
esonlineAuthor
Known Participant
June 24, 2006
I thought about that but i didn't seem to be able to get it done? Any idea how i can create an upload page? From what I found out MS IIS 6.0 has the "PUT" method built-in and therefore does not require any components on the server to handle upload data. But i still could not figure out how put a script togeher. Any help would be geatly appreciated.


quote:
Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
I would be creating a password protected upload page rather than having open
access to the folder.

--
Paul Whitham
Certified Dreamweaver MX2004 Professional
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver

Valleybiz Internet Design
www.valleybiz.net

"esonline" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:e7h585$kou$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi;
>
> I am developing a site where at some point the user can download/display
> certain PDF documents which are located on the server in a specific
> directory.
>
> The server is a Windows Server 2003 and I am using IIS 6.0 and my
> application
> is ASP VBScript
>
> Now i wanted to be able to upload infomration to that directory directly
> myself so in IIS I allowed "Director Browsing". This way i could just
> typein
> my domain and the name of the directory. i.e.
> www.mydomain.com/Documents But this also made it possible for
> anyone to
> access it as well.
>
> To solve the issue, in IIS i set the security for the directory so that it
> is
> not accessable by a web user. But that did not work.
>
> Does anyone know of a solution?
>




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