Hi, I've got a site I am trying to put coop on but it is being hosted by bcentral which obviously is running windows based servers..The tech support over there says they can't even make those CHMOD 777 change to the .txt file for me manually. They say it just simply can't be done on a windows based server. What other options do I have?
Microsoft is ULTRA SENSITIVE regarding any potential security issues on their bCentral servers. I needed to pass some info back and forth from my ecommerce site to track UPS shipping and they told me, "No Way!". I had to find a new host. PM me and I'll let you know who my current favorite host is.
Well that is definately not right. The user account that IIS runs under can be given permission to modify files. Either they are not very good at their job or (more likely) they dont want to do it for security reasons. Ross
You could put the .txt file in a specific directory and ask them to set write perms on it - don't use the terminology chmod 777 or the like - this is more of a unix term. If you're running an access database; most likely you need read and write perms to it and they can do it. Or; ask them if they like you to use a specific directory for read and write files.
Ask them to set a folder under the root to RWXD and you should be ok. Assuming they will do this for you.