ASP.net Getting the error “Access to the path is denied.” while trying to upload files to my Windows Server 2008 R2 Web server

Question

I have an asp.net webapplication that uploads files to a specific folder on the Web server. locally everything works fine, but when I deploy the application to the Webserver

Answer 1

I faced this problem once and in my case the soln is to close any process in the task manager that uses/accesses that file.