RavenDb - The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden

Question

When I try to create a database people collection on RavenDb, I get the following error:

The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

I hots the Raven on IIS and I am not sure what is going on. On the raven Management Studio, when I try to create a database, I get the below result:

Could not authenticate against server

Message: The remote server returned an error: NotFound. Uri: /databases?database=Default Server Uri: http://localhost:8888/docs/Raven/Databases/People

-- Error Information -- System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: NotFound. at System.Net.Browser.ClientHttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Func2.Invoke(T arg) at System.Threading.Tasks.TaskFactory1.FromAsyncCoreLogic(IAsyncResult iar, Func2 endMethod, TaskCompletionSource1 tcs)

When I looked into this with process monitor, I see that I am getting bunch of not found errors:

Under C:\Utils\RavenDB\Web directory, there are Bin and Data folders, nothing more. Should I create the necessary folders by myself? I created the docs folder but nothing changed. Still having problems.

Any thoughts?

Edit:

Tried with fiddler on Raven Management Studio by creating a document:

Request:

PUT http://localhost:1786/docs/People HTTP/1.1

Accept: /

Accept-Language: en-US

Referer: http://localhost:1786/silverlight/Raven.Studio.xap

Content-Length: 24

Accept-Encoding: identity

If-None-Match: 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7

Host: localhost:1786

Connection: Keep-Alive

Pragma: no-cache

{

"Name": "..."

}

Response:

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden

Cache-Control: private

Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5

X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319

X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 12:33:22 GMT

Content-Length: 0

Answer 1

This was answered in the comments, however I'll post it here for posterity.

The issue is resolved by changing the web.config value:

<add key="Raven/AnonymousAccess" value="Get"/> 

To:

<add key="Raven/AnonymousAccess" value="All"/>

Here is the link to the config page that explains each of the options. Be aware that this option will in fact turn off authentication, if you wish to run with authentication you will need the 'Get' or 'None' setting and you will also need to make sure Windows Authentication is installed (IIS 7.5) and enabled on the Raven IIS Application.