Live Data preview not working

Report · Apr 19, 2007

Hi,

I'm going through the dreamweaver tutorial on developing an asp web
application and it is going ok until i go to the live data preview.

I'm getting a live data error as follows "An error occurred while
requesting the document from the testing server: An error occurred on the server when
processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator."

I have checked the remote info and testing server settings and they look
fine.

I am using IIS on windows vista. The inetpub folder and all subfolders on my c drive are marked read only. Is this the source of the problem? Any ideas ? I'd greatly appreciate your ideas on this.

P.S. I have tried setting IE so that it does not display friendly http error messages to give me a better error message. However the error message remains unchanged.

Thanks

Patrick.

Report · Apr 19, 2007

yeah, you need to go to the Security tab on the site folder under Inetpub
and allow read, write and execute permissions to the IUSR_yourusername user.
In XP Pro, that's a right click on the site tab and go to Properties and you
have to unhide the security tab which is hidden by default and then find the
user and make your changes.

Unfortunately, I don't have Vista so this may not be the same.

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"PatrickU" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:f08iu6$2df$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hi,
>
> I'm going through the dreamweaver tutorial on developing an asp web
> application and it is going ok until i go to the live data preview.
>
> I'm getting a live data error as follows "An error occurred while
> requesting the document from the testing server: An error occurred on the
> server when
> processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator."
>
> I have checked the remote info and testing server settings and they look
> fine.
>
> I am using IIS on windows vista. The inetpub folder and all subfolders on
> my
> c drive are marked read only. Is this the source of the problem? Any ideas
> ?
> I'd greatly appreciate your ideas on this.
>
> P.S. I have tried setting IE so that it does not display friendly http
> error
> messages to give me a better error message. However the error message
> remains
> unchanged.
>
> Thanks
>
> Patrick.
>
>
>

Report · Apr 19, 2007

Thanks for this Nancy. i gave the iis_iusrs(myusername\iis_iusrs) the read and execute and write permissions to the site folder. However its still giving me the same error. I notice the site folder itself is marked read only. Vista is not letting me change this. Do you think this might be the problem and if so any suggestions? Do you know if there is any way to track down exactly where this error is being generated from?

Thanks,

Patrick

Report · Apr 19, 2007

hmm .. are you the Administrator? You probably can't set anything unless
you are. Unfortunately, I don't know much about Vista. :(

Nancy

"PatrickU" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:f08pae$9r6$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Thanks for this Nancy. i gave the iis_iusrs(myusername\iis_iusrs) the read
> and
> execute and write permissions to the site folder. However its still giving
> me
> the same error. I notice the site folder itself is marked read only. Vista
> is
> not letting me change this. Do you think this might be the problem and if
> so
> any suggestions? Do you know if there is any way to track down exactly
> where
> this error is being generated from?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>