Accessing Virtual Directory Problem

Hi,

I've been working on this a few day's and have made no progress...

I set up a website in IIS (5.1?) XP Pro. Put a static HTML page in the wwwroot folder and it works fine from {www.mydomain.ws}

Then I added a virtual directory for WebDAV (named webdav) with read, write and directory browsing capability. I would like access to files when I'm away from home. When I right click on the VD and select browse it displays the files within the folder just fine (under localhost).

When I try to access the folder from the internet {using www.mydomain.ws/webdav} I get a "File Not Found HTTP 404" error.


I don't fully understand the security, so I set everything to anonymous with IIS controlling the password and I'm currently set to administrator. The user is FOX1700\IUSR_FOX1700.


I don't really understand why it works locally and not globally (via internet).


Thanks in advance!!

If your folder is outside the wwwroot folder, you may need to explicitly give permission to the IUSR_... user account to your webdav folder.

Doug, Thanks for the response.


I explicitly gave IUSR_******** permission to the folder(s). Tried to access it within wwwroot as well as outside of the root folder...Still no luck...

Everything works when I browse the site (and folders) within IIS.

When I enter my address URL it works fine. But when I try to access my web folder with URL dice (I named the folder webdav and gave it read, write and directory browsing authority).

1. Am I using the path correctly? URL

2. I'm not even getting a security based error when I'm trying to access the folder... Just page not found 404.

3. Is there anything that would need to be configured on my firewall? Port 80 is open...


Thanks for any insight you can give me.

All I can guess is to review your virtual directory setup for webdav. Maybe create another test virtual directory and see if you get the same results. Put just a simple asp or html page in the vd for testing purposes.

I've tried that like 100 times with no luck.


It's like the server doesn't allow access to the folder from the internet. Like the firewall is blocking access.


Thanks!