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OpticalGaming
09-26-2004, 09:41 AM
Hi there,

Every so often, when trying to access an Image or File (e.g. index.php), it will ask for a User Name / Password. The only User/Pass that works is the Administrator account on the actual machine.

Is there a way to turn this off so it doesn't ask for a password when accessing files on the webserver? Is it to do with file permissions in the "Security" tab?

Cheers..... Matt.

MatthewN
09-26-2004, 09:46 AM
In IIS you can right click on the website and then go to the security and set up the anonymous username and password in there and also make sure that the same username and password you supply is actually on the folder and files where the domain's files are. You might also need to propogate those changes to child objects so the child objects (files) also have the correct perms.

OpticalGaming
09-26-2004, 10:25 AM
I think I sorted it. I'm using Plesk as my control panel software, so I set permissions (in this case) for "stats" as Full (Read, Write, Execute etc) and it worked :)