Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission.. failed

Question

I am getting this error when calling a web service method which writes to a file on the local drive on Windows 2003.

\"System.Security.SecurityException: Request for the

Answer 1

After a lot of troubleshooting, it boiled down to a mistake I made in web.config where the location tag had a path of www.example.com but in IIS it was example.com!