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I am trying to configure our server for a client's website that we host. Their site is PHP, which I'm not terribly familiar with, so I don't know if it works in some weird way. (All our sites are in ASP.)

They manage their own site generally, via FTP. They are trying to add sphiderplus to the site, which is where these issues started.

After logging in to sphiderplus, you receive numerous copies of this error (for a number of files and folders under the sphiderplus root):

I'm not sure what I need to do to give PHP the proper permissions for sphiderplus to run properly. Here are the steps I've taken so far after googling around, which did not work...

• created a separate application pool for the PHP site
• created a separate local user for the above app pool
• gave that local user Full Control rights on the sphiderplus root directory (with propagation)
• gave IUSRFull Control rights on the sphiderplus root directory (with propagation)
• gave IIS_IUSRSFull Control rights on the sphiderplus root directory (with propagation)
• gave NETWORK SERVICEFull Control rights on the sphiderplus root directory (with propagation)

... and then just for fun, when it still wouldn't work, to test,

• gave EveryoneFull Control rights on the sphiderplus root directory (with propagation)

I don't know what else to try. Is there maybe some sort of ini or config file that I need to change some lines in or something? I really would've thought, if nothing else, then giving Everyone full control on the whole sphiderplus directory would've worked. I'm not really sure what else to do.

We are running

• PHP 7.0.5 installed from Microsoft's Web Platform Installer
• FastCGI installed from Micosoft's Web Platform Installer
• IIS 7.5.7600.16385
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (v 6.1 b 7601).

1 Answer

For what it is worth, I got around this by changing how it was checking the writability of the files/folders.

The sphiderplus code was checking like this...

I changed that code to this...

Seems to work fine.

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