IIS 7.5 - 403 Forbidden

Question

Ok, I have scoured online resources and applied all the suggested solutions.

I am setting up a simple website on Windows Server 2008 R2 under IIS 7.5 using the \"ASP

Answer 1

For me the answer was in handler mappings section of IIS 7.5

Adding the following to web.config enabled all the aspx pages to work correctly

<configuration>
...
  <system.webServer>
    <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
    <handlers accessPolicy="Read, Script" />
    ... 
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Answer 2

Haha you think that is embarrasing! This is probably the 1000th webserver I've installed... 30mins of 403s!! I can't figure it out. There is a stub default.asp in there.. permissions all correct... everything!

I turned on "directory" browsing in desparation of flicking around.

default.asp.txt is sitting there..... DOH.

Need to turn OFF "known file types"... why is that setting like that anyway?

Answer 3

Grant permission to the Network Service user in the NTFS folder

Also check the .Net authorization rules:

Answer 4

Mine was even more embarrassing.

Right Click on folder,Remove READ only attribute.