IIS7 blocks viewing access to files in bin and other asp.net folders

Posted by: Scott Forsyths WebLog, on 05 Mar 2008 | View original | Bookmarked: 0 time(s)

I was just asked to help someone troubleshoot a site that worked fine on Windows Server 2003 / IIS6 but didn't work on Windows Server 2008 / IIS7.  A file was in a folder under the bin folder on the site and displayed an error when trying to view the page.  The path looked something like this: http://www.sitename.com/subfolder/bin/debug/file.xml The subfolder wasn't marked as an application, although that doesn't really matter.  The point is that since /bin/ was in the path somewhere,...

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